From the moment of birth, at every level, human beings who are more alike than different become polarized into two absolutely exclusive classes with very different and ill-distributed symbolic powers.

Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.

Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.

One of the blessings that comes with parental territory is that children tug you into experiences you're pretty sure you'd never otherwise contemplate.

Who one believes God to be is most accurately revealed not in any credo but in the way one speaks to God when no one else is listening.

From the moment of birth, at every level, human beings who are more alike than different become polarized into two absolutely exclusive classes with very different and ill-distributed symbolic powers.

God is no White Knight who charges into the world to pluck us like distressed damsels from the jaws of dragons, or diseases. God chooses to become present to and through us. It is up to us to rescue one another.