The Lord works through deeply flawed people, since He made so few of the other kind.

If there is to be reconciliation, first there must be truth.

In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.

Anyone intent on moral clarity might want to find another book and, in fact, might not want to go anywhere near the enduring chasm of race in the United States.

He has no talent at all, that boy! You, who are his friend, tell him, please, to give up painting.–--Manet to Monet, on Renoir---

I didn't write the rules, why should i follow them?

So long as the majority of Canadians have two countries one here and one in Europe national unity will remain a myth and a constant source of internecine quarrels.

I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

You can sightread better if you know your scales and arpeggios.

I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope and is always thrilling.

Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered.

I know one thing: that you can do a lot of things but if you don't educate people into conscious anarchism it gets frittered away.

I put my bullets into the target as if I placed them there by hand.