women and the earth have to tolerate a lot

“The moon slips from a silver mist, - With star-bound brow, and star-wreathed wrist,”

“We are ghosts in Victorian gowns, / lilac aparitions with parasols…”

“The best way out is by going deeper in.”

“Newton and Descartes started to try and prove that God existed in the same way as they would try and prove something in the laboratory or with their mathematics … And when you try and mix science and religion you get bad science and bad religion. The two are doing two different things. … Science can give you a diagnosis of cancer. It can even cure your disease, but it cannot touch your grief and disappointment, nor can it help you to die well.”

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”