There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking.

I will love you forever" swears the poet. I find this easy to swear too. "I will love you at 4:15 pm next Tuesday" - Is that still as easy?

The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men, left to themselves, become gnostics. They may swagger like peacocks, but in their heart of hearts they all think sex an indignity and wish they could beget themselves on themselves. Hence the aggressive hostility toward women so manifest in most club-car stories.

Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible.

To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith