"The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs."

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."

"I am a democrat [believer in democracy] because I believe in the Fall of Man. I think most people are democrats for the opposite reason."

"The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."

"Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning."