There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.

I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two?

Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.

What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far.

No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.