We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to achieve a revolution. Time and time and time again, the people discover that they have merely betrayed themselves into the hands of yet another Pharaoh, who, since he was necessary to put the broken country together, will not let them go.

There exists among the intolerable degraded, the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual those fantastic crimes of which they have been accused, achieving their vengeance and their own destruction through making the nightmare real.

It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did.

There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.