I'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.

Perhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us.

We are an episode between two oblivions.

To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single theory of how to decide what to believe.

The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of a maelstrom of impulses and passions, of cruelty, ecstacy, and madness, than is apparent to the civilized being who glides on the surface and fits smoothly into the world.

I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology.

equally real at all stages of his life; specifically, the fact that a particular stage is present cannot be regarded as conferring on it any special status.