His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times.

A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Louie thought: Let go.

My work was entirely nonfiction.

While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life

I am in an altogether new world now. I can think of nothing more wonderful. It is a real touch of all that heaven means.

... character reigns preeminent in determining potential.

The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.