The parochial snobbery of these people was partly responsible for their failure to convert the Indians. Probably they also preferred to take land from heathens rather than from fellow Christians. At any rate, very few Indians were converted, and the Salem folk believed that the virgin forest was the Devil's last preserve, his home base and the citadel of his final stand. To the best of their knowledge the American forest was the last place on earth that was not paying homage to God.

Don't take it on yourself. Forget now. Live.

You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you.

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

He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. All of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.

Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success.

A suicide kills two people, that's what it's for!