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.

Time can be such a menace to a man. By this age do that; by that age do better.

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.

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

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.

My guess [is] . . . that the great majority of Americans are saying they favor gun control when they really mean gun banishment. . . . I think the country has long been ready to restrict the use of guns, except for hunting rifles and shotguns, and now I think we're prepared to get rid of the damned things entirely - the handguns, the semis and the automatics.