Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.

God does not need our worship. We worship to enlarge our sense of holy, so that we can feel and know the presense of the Lord, who is with us always. He said, Love is what it amounts to, a loftier love, and pleasure in a loving presence.

What an embarrassment that was, being somewhere because there was nowhere else for you to be.

It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.

We have demythologized prematurely, that we've actually lost the vocabulary for discussing reality at its largest scales. The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.

Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate school.

It is possible to know the great truths without feeling the truth of them.