When I say "The good man gave his good dog a good meal," I use "good" analogically, for there is at the same time a similarity and a difference between a good man, a good dog, and a good meal. All three are desirable, but a good man is wise and moral, a good dog is tame and affectionate, and a good meal is tasty and nourishing. But a good man is not tasty and nourishing, except to a cannibal; a good dog is not wise and moral, except in cartoons, and a good meal is not tame and affectionate, unless it's alive as you eat it.

No one justifies lying, cheating, betraying, promise breaking, devastating and harming strangers. But we expect and we tolerate doing this to the one person in the world we promised most seriously to be faithful to forever: we justify divorce.

The most striking feature if this map is the stark fat of the Two Roads. There is the road that leads to Life, and there is the road that leads to Death. There is Good, and there is Evil. There is Right and there is Wrong.

In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space.

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

We sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that it’s worth it, that it pays.

When you give yourself away you find that a new and more real self has somehow been given to you.