Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.

Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?

The Mysteries are the Mysteries, and ultimately personal maybe the most personal thing in the universe. Evangelism, in my opinion, is a failure of the imagination. Beware of prophets: the best visions are the ones they leave in the desert.

We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.

Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely.

Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.

Some things are taken away from you, some you leave behind and some you carry with you, world without end.