The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself; and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.

He's not human; he's an empty space disguised as a human.

There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.

No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.

I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.

They looked down on her; and she looked up through them.

You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint. The most terrible bad form.