“[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them.”

“A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photogr...”

“When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, seems to be potentially every man's biography regarding God's promised experiences and truth for hi...”

“The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.”

“He was looking for the Knight of Faith, the real prodigy. That real prodigy, having set its relations with the infinite, was entirely at home in the finite. Able to carry the jewel of faith, making...”

“The real troubles with living is that living is so banal.”

“It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror.”

“For seventy years we have been brushing our teeth and yet they have not become clean, so is that thing for real or is it a falsity?”

“No human being can be so honest as to become completely false.”

“It is the unspeakable misery of a life so false as his, that it steals the pith and substance out of whatever realities there are around us, and which were meant by Heaven to be the spirits joy and...”