... if you love your country why is it necessary to hate other countries?

It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little universe.

The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.

An idol tells people exactly what to believe, God presents them with choices they have to make for themselves. The difference is far from insignificant; before the idol men remain dependent children, before God they are burdened and at the same time liberated to participate in the decisions of endless creation.

We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!

The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes have to be tested in it. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing himself, always.

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.