This looked like an adventure, and, at fifty, adventures do not come every day. - Robertson Davies

Nobody can find fault with legitimate ambition, but when the wealth of the spiritual and intellectual life is reduced to a formula for overcoming sales resistance, we protest.

When religion abandons poetic utterance, it cuts its own throat.

The body is the inescapable factor, you see. You can keep in good shape for what you are, but radical change is impossible. Health isn't making everybody into a Greek ideal; it's living out the destiny of the body.