"Love isn’t in the category of normal things. Not any worthwhile kind of love, anyway."

"I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines."

"What I compare bike lanes to is swimming with the sharks. Sooner or later you're going to get bitten... Roa…"

"As in poetry, so in prayer, the whole subject matter should be furnished by the heart, and the understandin…"

"I come to understand what purity is: it means to feel something so wholeheartedly that it shrivels up all d…"

"A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we ar…"

"The best explanation I can give of what it is, is this: it is what God does through a rare combination of t…"