"The most important quality for a writer is to be able to tell the truth."

"The love of neighbor, being made of the same stuff as the love of God, is supernatural."

"The intelligence can only be led by desire. For there to be desire, there must be pleasure. Pleasure is given by the good."

"The only way to be pure is to be dirty."

"Human thought is so made that the desire for truth is more often satisfied by the contemplation of works of art than by the search for truth itself."