God really does take our work seriously: It is wrong, it is a sin, to accept or remain in a position that you know is a mismatch for you. Perhaps that's a form of sin you've never considered - the sin of staying in the wrong job. But God did not place you on the earth to waste away your years in labor that does not employ his design or purpose for your life, no matter how much you may be getting paid for it.

If you analyse anything, you destroy it.

Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now.

It was not really possible to understand oneself, let alone another human being.

A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong--if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long.

There is a kind of perverse unity forming among us, born, I think, of the discontent of all classes of people with the endless frustration of life.

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.