It's the quality of harmony, sir. The quality of being in harmony with you own soul. God having given you your own soul you are then in harmony with Heaven.

You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained ... and exhausted. So that ... That in effect was love.

He was presumably a lover. They did things like commanding battalions. And worse!

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion for the instinctual tribes must be satisfied.

I have a couple of dozen books on my reader: ideal for a long trip or an afternoon waiting at the medical clinic. It's flexible.

On 139 and Lenox Ave there's a big park, and if you're soft don't go through it when it gets dark

The idea of God holding a grudge against us and needing to be asked to forgive us is an outrage on the Fatherhood of God.

We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

To become conscious of what is horrifying and to laugh at it is to become master of that which is horrifying

I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.

Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to pre-civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.