There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.
I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two?
No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.
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.
I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.
There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.