The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.

I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon.

You marry the day you realize the human defects of your love.

I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in the devil, I must believe in God. And if evil is abhorrent to me, I must be a saint. Henry, save me from beatification, from the horrors of static perfection. Precipitate me into the inferno.

The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.