“What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none.”

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”

“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say. That way, you'll never have to fear an unanticipated blow.”

“After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.”

“But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”

“I agree with you that in politics the middle way is none at all.”

“Take care that none of them escapes.”

“Faith — what is this emotion but a desperate attempt to escape from mind-burning fear?”

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”

“Sin is resistance, in the name of God, to the creative work of God which seeks to include us all.”