“Books make the soul float.”

“I did not elaborate, nor did I need to. The human imagination is capable of anything when left on its own to fill in the blanks.”

“I had found by experience that putting things down on paper helped to clear the mind in precisely the same way, as Mrs. Mullet had taught me, that an eggshell clarifies the consomm or the coffee, w...”

“Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath is not community. A multinational corporation is neither a human nor a co...”

“Holiness is as much about what you do on a Monday morning on the factory floor as it is about what you do on a Sunday morning in a church gathering. Holiness is as much about the kind of neighbour ...”

“Liturgy gathers the holy community as it reads the Holy Scriptures into the sweeping tidal rhythms of the church year in which the story of Jesus and the Christian makes its rounds century after ce...”

“Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press.”

“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost.”

“The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.”

“Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness. ”

“Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.”