"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action..."

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“I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.”
“So much of the humor on new sitcoms plays to the lowest common denominator. Wit isn't nearly given as much attention as slipping on a banana peel. So much of the writing is so coarse, so obvious that it doesn't provide a shock, never mind a laugh. What makes something funny is alluding to it without laying it out explicitly. You let the audiences fill in the gaps and that's where the laughs come.”
“You have to contort your body in a certain way to hit a low note. When you're on film, you can't. So you do, in a sense, get to hide behind your voice, which is nice.”
“My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.”
“There is nothing that can replace the absence of someone dear to us, and one should not even attempt to do so. One must simply hold out and endure it. At first that sounds very hard, but at the same time it is also a great comfort. For to the extent the emptiness truly remains unfilled one remains connected to the other person through it. It is wrong to say that God fills the emptiness. God in no way fills it but much more leaves it precisely unfilled and thus helps us preserve -- even in pain -- the authentic relationship.”
“I figure I basically am a ghost. I think we all are.”
“I accept with sincere belief the doctrine of faith as handed down to us from the Apostles by the orthodox Fathers, always in the same sense and with the same interpretation.”
“I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue”

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