There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.

To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you.

Then I buckled up my shoes, and I started.

God be thanked for books! They are the voices of the distant and the dead.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, in a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The anomaly of their sexuality puts them in danger, unexpectedly.