“Once evil is individualized, becoming part of everyday life, the way of resisting it also becomes individual. How does the soul survive? is the essential question. And the response is: through love and imagination.”
“As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.”
“Fashion can be a mask to cover imaginative poverty, and is often the antithesis of individual taste, but it can also become a weapon to establish a distinct personality.”
“But what I do love about this road is how the gaudy becomes grand, how tastelessness is a way of everyday life”
“The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God and horizontally to other souls; and the more it grows in both directions, the less merely individual and therefore more truly personal it will become.”
“The key question isn't 'What is Evil?' The key question is 'When does the Good become Evil?”