A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.

I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another.

She closed one eye and looked at me and said, "I know there is a blessing in this somewhere." It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire. Another reason why you must be careful of your health.

Faith takes a great many forms, suited to a variety of sensibilities, and mine happens to suit me very well.

My politics, and my religion as well, are based entirely on the loveliness and value of ordinary human lives. The creaky apparatus called politics shelters or oppresses or threatens these lives, and is therefore of interest.

One of the things that is nice about these old pastors - they were young at the time - who went into the Middle West is that they were real humanists. They were often linguists, for example, and the schools that they established were then, as they are now, real liberal arts colleges where people studied the humanities in a very broad sense. I think that should be reflected in his mind; appropriately, it is.

Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation.