“The only way to be completely self-consistent is to be constantly uttering paradoxes.”

“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.”

“Man is like an island set in isolation in a fathomless sea enveloped by darkness, saying that the loneliness his self knows is so utterly absolute because even he knows not his self completely.”

“To consume the Eucharist is an act of anticonsumption, for here to consume is to be consumed, to be taken up into participation in something larger than the self, yet in a way in which the identity of the self is paradoxically secured.”

“Here's the paradox. We can fully embrace God's love only when we recognize how completely unworthy of it we are.”

“You are going to do this voluntarily, Mr. Constant, so that the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent can have a drama of dignified self-sacrifice to remember and ponder through all time.”