I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.

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

If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.

Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.