There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.

In war everybody is a prisoner.

The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both.

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

Hope is a slow business.

The fish in the creek said nothing. Fish never do. Few people know what fish think about injustice, or anything else.

Paradise is for those who make paradise.