A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.

The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm.

We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are.

I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.

They tell him that there is no why, since the moment simply is and since all of them are trapped in the moment, like bugs in amber.

I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why, and where evolution is headed. That's why we've got giraffes and hippopotami and the clap.

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.