Let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.

The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.

Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself.

Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one's evil from oneself, as well as from others, than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture? ... I do not mean to imply that the evil are anything other than a small minority among the religious or that the religious motives of most people are in any way spurious. I mean only that evil people tend to gravitate toward piety for the disguise and concealment it can offer them.

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

If you want to raise a man from mud and filth, do not think it is enough to stay on top and reach a helping hand down to him. You must go all the way down yourself, down into mud and filth. Then take hold of him with strong hands and pull him and yourself out into the light.