I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do
He was also dying, though we didn’t know it yet.
Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.
Travel in contested territory. Hard-working writing and reading when safely home, in the knowledge that an amusing friend is later coming to dinner.
Because their lack of conscience prevents them from blushing—
Um verdadeiro homem de fé deve acreditar que está aqui para um propósito e que é um objeto de real interesse para um Ser Supremo; deve também fingir ter pelo menos uma noção do que aquele Ser Supremo...
To all of us the thought of heaven is dear— Why not be sure of it and make it here? No doubt there is a heaven yonder too, But ’tis so far away—and you are near. Men talk of heaven,—there is no heav...
This surrender, by a man of the Enlightenment and a man of truly revolutionary and democratic temperament, is another reminder that history is a tragedy and not a morality tale
Saul Bellow: Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are able to see anything.
PATRIOTIC AND TRIBAL feelings belong to the squalling childhood of the human race, and become no more charming in their senescence.
One of the juiciest pleasures of life is to be able to salute and embrace, as elected leaders and honored representatives, people whom you first met when they were on the run or in exile or (like Adam...
Of course what I'm about to share isn't true for me but...Friends, somebody said, are god's apology for relations. (p. 129)
I can claim copyright only in myself, and occasionally in those who are either dead or have written about the same events, or who have a decent expectation of anonymity, or who are such appalling publ...
And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.
Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them pick the time and place of the c...
Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't know it. I fear dying, of dying I feel a sense of waste about it and I fear a sordid death, where I...
The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why...
I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.
To the dumb question Why me? the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?
There are days when I miss my old convictions as if they were an amputated limb. But in general I feel better, and no less radical, and you will feel better too, I guarantee, once you leave hold of th...