You don't need numbers; you need passion, and this is proven by the history of the world!

I really do believe in the New Jerusalem. I really do believe that we can all become better than we are. I know we can. But the price is enormous and people are not yet willing to pay it.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

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.

You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.

In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.