Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoring nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one nor the other is likable. The Great Beast is always repulsive

The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.

I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.