Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.

The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way.

If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive.

We tend to think things are new because we've just discovered them.

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

Anything that's natural can't be sinful-it may be inconvenient, but it's not sinful.

All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But much bad or downright sacrilegious art depicts so-called religious subjects.