“Thus there is in the life of a collector a dialectical tensions between the poles of disorder and order.”

“The three most ancient opinions concerning God are Anarchia, Polyarchia, and Monarchia. The first two are the sport of the children of Hellas, and may they continue to be so. For Anarchy is a thing without order; and the Rule of Many is factious, and thus anarchical, and thus disorderly. For both these tend to the same thing, namely disorder; and this to dissolution, for disorder is the first step to dissolution. But Monarchy is what we hold in honor.”

“Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.”

“From the point of view of pure logic or philosophy, there will often be a dialectical tension between two concepts.For example...If I reflect on the concept of 'being,' I will be obliged to introduce the opposite concept, that of 'nothing.' You can't reflect on your existence without immediately realizing that you won't always exist. The tension between 'being' and 'nothing' becomes resolved in the concept of 'becoming.' Because if something is in the process of becoming, it both is and is not.”

“My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.”

“Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.”