“It's not just college grades that fall in a curve. Human decency is bell-shaped, with some of us slopping over the edges. Saints on one end, sinners on the other.”
“Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal.”
“The church is not a museum for saints it's a hospital for sinners.”
“One hardly knew at times whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of some mediaeval saint or the morbid confessions of a modern sinner. It was a poisonous book.”
“One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.”
“Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.”