The universe, which is not merely the stars and the moon and the planets, flowers, grass and trees, but other people, has evolved no terms for your existence, has made no room for you, and if love will not swing wide the gates, no other power will or can. And if one despairs-- as who has not?-- of human love, God's love alone is left.

Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.

A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

We can make America what America must become.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

When Americans look out on the world, they see nothing but dark and menacing strangers who appear to have no sense of rhythm at all, nor any respect or affection for white people; and white Americans really do not know what to make of all this, except to increase the defense budget.