A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.

When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.

The sexual parts are not only vivid examples of the body's dominion; they are also apertures whose damp emissions and ammoniac smells testify to the mysterious putrefaction of the body.

Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we find ourselves in a spiritual desert.

Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.

When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment

The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends.