"For the intellectual, material comforts are relatively unimportant; what he cares about most is spiritual freedom. The strength of the Catholic church has always been that it demands the sacrifice of that freedom uncompromisingly, and condemns spiritual pride as deadly sin. The Communist novice, subjecting his soul to the cannon law of the Kremlin, felt something of the release which Catholicism also brings to the intellectual, wearied and worried by the privilege of freedom."

-Richard Crossman