When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.

There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... one person of integrity can make a difference.

Pain is essential. Often I cannot avoid it.Therefore all one can do is redeem it; and the only way to redeem it is through literature, art, poetry, music.

For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to do something with it. I feel the need to pay back what was given to me. Call it gratitude.

If you read Exodus 15 carefully, it describes a storm at sea. This is the old Yahwistic source. In the retelling of the story in the later Priestly source, it is more miraculous: The water stands up on either side like a wall. There are walls of water standing up. As you move back in time, oddly enough, the story becomes more historical.