Love, I think, is by necessity constructed of a ladder of lies you climb together.

God is a strange and mysterious master, and I no doubt am a strange and mysterious servant, but from this day forward I am His. I am forever changed, by my own choice, and I wonder if He is too.

Bear your pain or it will come back

I feel sorry for many politicians we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.

Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul.

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.

Our hearts do not need logic. They can love and forgive and accept that which our minds cannot comprehend. Hearts understand in ways minds cannot.

You won't hear from me again.

An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.

Knavery's plain face is never seen till used.