I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living.

But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potentially moral units -- because of this they could give God their own courage and dignity and then receive it back. Such things have disappeared perhaps because men do not trust themselves anymore, and when that happens there is nothing left except perhaps to find some strong sure man, even though he may be wrong, and to dangle from his coattails.

I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.

But a man needs company.

As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.

On all levels American society is rigged. I am troubled by the cynical immorality of my country. It cannot survive on this basis.

I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.