A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements in the sociopolitical reality.

He seemed to be waiting for a miracle to save him from the depths his life had reached and take him to a land of dreams.

An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.

Only the poor are handicapped by honor.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death