Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man.

Anybody who has ever tried to rectify an injustice or set a record straight comes to feel that he is going mad.

If one means by style the voice, the irreducible and always recognizable and alive thing, then of course style is really everything.

For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.

It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief.

... it was religion that saved me. Our ugly church and parochial school provided me with my only aesthetic outlet, in the words ofthe Mass and the litanies and the old Latin hymns, in the Easter lilies around the altar, rosaries, ornamented prayer books, votive lamps, holy cards stamped in gold and decorated with flower wreaths and a saint's picture.

Making love, we are all more alike than we are when we are talking or acting.