It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure.

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.

Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place.

Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the byproduct of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.

Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

The human body is always treated as an image of society.

Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.

Ah, Lord God be merciful to us all!

My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.

..Whoever dewlls on beauty tends to become beautiful; there will be a grace and charm to expressing itself through that person which no one can fail to recognize and appreciate.

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, which people don't seem to be shy about expressing.

Holy Purity is granted by God when it is asked for with humility.

Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.

Calvin Klein and Gloria Vanderbilt don't wear clothes with your name on it, so why should you wear their name?

The power of telly is surprising. If you're in a six-part series, you're famous while it's on - people point in the street. Two weeks later it all goes back to normal.