At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

“Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face …”

“I hope you don’t have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you. The fiction of Ayn…”

“I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of thos…”

“I don’t really think the standard of judgment, the missing link, you spoke of t…”