The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.

Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side.

But I replied that what made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could be anywhere. By saints I meant people who behaved decently in a strikingly indecent society.

The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusion. It makes them impossible. It is a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's.

Hardly anyone in the world is an American

Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. The creator of the universe has been unknown to us so far. We serve as well as we can to the highest abstraction of which we have some understanding, which is our community.

Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.