Certain brands of guilt can be inculcated in a secular way but other brands of guilt can only be obtained with reference to the metaphysical.

Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better!

...someone ought to invent a tool, a kind of plane to shave the lies away from stories and deception away from memories. I'm a collector of shavings.

I can't force your lips to smile, but I can show them how easily mine do.

Beyond age, leaf withered, man goes three footed no stronger than a child is, a dream that falters in daylight.

I think referendums are fantastic as long as the question is phrased in a way which is not meant to deliberately confuse or confound people.

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

Great leaders inspire us to go places we would never go on our own, and to attempt things we never thought we had in us.

People know the difference between good and evil in their hearts-if they search them. Religions twist good and evil. Their differences are the kind that need to be taught because they aren't natural.

we are nothing more than the sum of our memories and experiences

God has granted me today a very particular fondness for requesting of Him that same virtue of ever choosing the worst and that which is contrary to my own liking.