Hell is indefinite.

The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God.

I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been.

So long always as joy was not rashly pinned to the happening; so long as you accepted what joys the universe offered and did not seek to compel the universe to offer you joys of your own definition.

The famous saying ‘God is love’, it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the ‘otherness’ and terror of God.

The child lies unborn in the queen’s womb; unformed in his brain is the web of all our doom, as unformed in the minds of all the great lords lies the image of the split Table and of surreptitious swords.

An hour’s conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.

Over the white curve he had looked into incredible space; abysses of intelligence lay beyond it.

It’ll do you all the good in the world, Giles, to be a little uncertain of yourself”.

Why isn’t one taught how to be loved? Why isn’t one taught anything?