In spiritually arid centuries, the only man to realize that the century is dying from thirst is the man who still harnesses an underground spring.

In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.

Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.

Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.

Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience.

Faith is not knowledge of an object but communion with it.

In the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish.The fool is cured by “reason, ” “progress, ” alcohol, work.

Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching thewalls of his dungeon.

Phrases are pebbles that the writer tosses into the reader’s soul.The diameter of the concentric waves they displace depends on the dimensions of the pond.

In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has thrust up to its hilt inside us.

Everything that makes man feel that mystery envelops him makes him more intelligent.

If you are good, they say you are weak.

It is our Spiritual nature to understand, accept and allow our human nature.

Although I grew up in London, I spent summers in Missouri, where my dad lived. It's quite a liberal town, Kansas City. You'd be surprised.

Settle down, Princess. It’s not my first time.

A proof only becomes a proof after the social act of "accepting it as a proof".

Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television.

Getting typecast is a dangerous thing to do.

I have so many boxing gloves around my house that I would get them confused with other gloves.

I'm a historian in my own mind.

No movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad.