Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.
Love is holy because it is like grace–the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.
Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I’m attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity.