There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

Culture cannot be separated from politics. The arts, philosophy and metaphysics, religion and the sciences, constitute culture. Politics are the science or art of organizing our relationships to allow for the development of life in society.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.

It is hard as an American to support the failure of American military operations in Iraq. Such failure will bring with it the death and wounding of many American service members, and many more Iraqis.

Like in combat when you're in chaos, a Navy SEAL in chaos, you cannot be afraid of dying for a cause.