In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.

Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists, heterosexual or homosexual. Loneliness has to do with the sudden clefts we experience in every human relation, the gaps that open up with such stomach-turning unexpectedness. In a brief moment, I and my brother or sister have moved away into different worlds, and there is no language we can share.... It is in the middle of intimacy that the reality of loneliness most dramatically appears.

I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.

The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.

The past is what the present is doing now.