Peace is only better than war if peace is not hell too. War being hell makes sense. - Walker Percy

Christians talk about the horror of sin, but they have overlooked something. They keep talking as if everyone were a great sinner, when the truth is that nowadays one is hardly up to it. There is very little sin in the depths of the malaise. The highest moment of a malaisian's life can be the moment when he manages to sin like a proper human (Look at us, Binx — my vagabond friends as good as cried out to me — we're sinning! We're succeeding! We're human after all!).

You don't ever really learn anything you didn't know when you were thirteen.

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life.