Sin, he reflected, is not what it is usually thought to be; it is not to steal and tell lies. Sin is for one man to walk brutally over the life of another and to be quite oblivious of the wounds he has left behind.

I became a Catholic against my will.

A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.

Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt.

True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men.

Every weakness contains within itself a strength.

Sin, he reflected, is not what it is usually thought to be; it is not to steal and tell lies. Sin is for one man to walk brutally over the life of another and to be quite oblivious of the wounds he has left behind.