Anytime you make a person into something other than himself, you make a monster.

There is nothing like a man for bringing out the animal in an animal.

The only reason I wanted 'Making Toast' as the title is that it is a simple gesture of moving on. Every morning there's the bread and you make the toast and you start the day.

Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved

Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.

Every writing teacher gives the subliminal message, every time they teach: 'Your life counts for something.' In no other subject that I know of is that message given.

The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.