“Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.”

“whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.”

“It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was areal mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was butone mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed andchanged into itself over and over.”

“The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.”

“The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their victim suspects their existence; they are masked evil. Pain is unmasked, unmistakable evil; every man knows that something is wrong when he is being hurt.”

“Spirit is like the wind, in that we can't see it but can see its effects, which are profound.”