Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.

Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself.

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.

Now is the age of anxiety.