To be able to play baseball for those nine innings in front of a major league crowd is a special privilege.
Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire.
Where there is abundance you can afford waste.
Spain is an overflow of sombreness. . . a strong and threatening tide of history meets you at the frontier.
What every artist should try to prevent is the car, in which is our civilized life, plunging over the side of the precipice -- the exhibitionist extremist promoter driving the whole bag of tricks into a nihilistic nothingness or zero.
Gertrude Stein's prose-song is a cold, black suet-pudding. . . . Cut it at any point, it is the same thing. . . all fat, without nerve.
Lewis sought no disciples, nor does he offer a program or solution, rather his contribution is a critical discipline. Lewis is a stimulant, a mode of perception, rather than a position or practice.
Make the most of prayer. . . . Prayer is the master-weapon. We should be wise if we used it more, and did so with a more specific purpose.
While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?
Religion's pretty pervasive in humans. And why it's pervasive in humans is debated a lot. There are indications of things that look like religion in other animals, like chimps doing rain dances, and that sort of thing. Actually, I say that, but there's that and not much else.
The most important thing is to go out and see the stars, not to see them in books.