Take one sexually inept wage-slave,'" she went on, "'one dissatisfied female, two or (if preferred) three small television-addicts; marinate in a mixture of Freudism and dilute Christianity; then bottle up tightly in a four-room flat and stew for fifteen years in their own juice.

Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.

It must be pleasant, I should think, to hand oneself over to somebody else. It must give you a warm, splendid, comfortable feeling.

The choice of self-abandonment in suffering makes possible the reception of grace - grace on the spiritual level, in the form of an accession of the love and knowledge of God, and grace in the mental and physiological levels, in the form of a diminution of fear, self-concern and even of pain.

But the need for frequent chemical vacations from intolerable selfhood and repulsive surroundings will undoubtedly remain.

"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.

He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next

God gave me emotions so I could experience life, not destroy it.

Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.

While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.

The cares of this life emerge as very small items indeed along our daily path.

Don't you worry about a thing, my darling. You live your life.