"The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that."

"The absurd is the essential factor in faith."

"The most tremendous energy of which human nature is capable is the agony of being a self."

"The ethical is the universal, and the universal is the ethical."

"I am a living demonstration of the fact that a man can remain a virgin until he is 30, and yet be a man."