W.H. Auden

When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.

Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.

Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.

The religious definition of truth is not that it is universal but that it is absolute.

I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.