“A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.”

“Culture primarily witnesses the absence of meaning, not it's presence.”

“When someone witnesses something amazing, what matters most is not 'out there' . . . but deep within, at the vital emotional center of witness.”

“The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness for there could be no identity to the world but only each man's opinion of it. The priest saw that there is no man who is elect because there is no man who is not. To God every man is a heretic.”

“Getting something and having the wits to use it...those are two different things.”

“In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.”