The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

None but the weak crave to be better than. Strong men are satisfied with their own strength.

Belief in Some One's right to punish you is the fate of all children in Judaic-Christian culture. But nowhere else, perhaps, have the rich seed-beds of Western homes found such a growing climate for guilt as is produced in the South by the combination of a warm moist evangelism and racial segregation.

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

For men tied fast to the absolute, bled of their differences, drained of their dreams by authoritarian leeches until nothing but pulp is left, become a massive, sick Thing whose sheer weight is used ruthlessly by ambitious men. Here is the real enemy of the people: our own selves dehumanized into the masses. And where is the David who can slay this giant?

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.