Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.