Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end.

One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.

Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected.

Two people can form a community by excluding a third.

Like morality, literature needs to be universal. So that the writer must put himself on the side of the majority, of the two billion starving, if he wishes to be able to speak to all and be read by all. Failing that, he is at the service of a privileged class and, like it, an exploiter.

Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts.

Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain’s children: thy will be done. You have allowed men’s hearts to be corrupted, that their intentions be rotten, that their actions putrefy and stink: thy will be done.