“Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.”
“Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.”
“Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is united is passion, and faith is a passion.”
“The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of scepticism with faith.”
“Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.”
“The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.”