If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write anything that can be read. If you want to help other people you have got to make up your mind to write things that some men will condemn.

The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there will be no more sins because all the sinners will have been wiped out.

If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.

I will not fear, for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

To love our nothingness we must love everything in us that the proud man loves when he loves himself. But we must love it all for exactly the opposite reason.

For although God is right with us and in us and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find him.

You are made in the image of what you desire.