I am clearer in my mind and a bit less confused than I used to be.

That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!

I'm confused, and brilliant books help me to be less so.

A person always has a chance to protest this or that.

It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a power it ought not to have.

The old man began to sing. His voice was very lovely and obviously a part of something that the world had disposed of in its haste, evidence of a grander, kinder past.

I don't start with an idea or concept in the sense that I flesh out an idea or concept and set it at the center of something.