The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.

Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box and so took my shape. Then, when I broke out of the box, the way a baby chick escapes an egg, is it strange that I had the shape of a cross? Have you ever noticed that chickens are roughly egg-shaped?

There are some times...when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow.

I guess there are never enough books.

And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in great words because the tales were great, and the listeners became great through them.

The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind.

My own journey started long before I left, and was over before I returned.