Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

The hunger of the spirit for eternity - as fierce as a starving man's for bread - is much less a craving to go on living than a craving for redemption. Oh, and a protest against absurdity.

Failures to love are irremediable and irredeemable.

Language is memory and metaphor.

giving the utmost of herself to three absorbing interests [marriage, motherhood, career] ... was a problem for a superwoman, and a job for a superwoman, and only some such fabled being could have accomplished it with success.

Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces.