Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.

People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way.

As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.

Religious hatreds tend to be merciless and absolute.

Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

The jumbo jet is the airborne equivalent of the interstate highway...One might as well be stuffed into a cartridge and shot through a pneumatic tube, like interoffice mail.

A day cannot live in infamy without the nourishment of rage. Let's have rage.