And what about all the good I have in my heart - does it mean anything?

The spirit knows that its growth is the real aim of existence.

Well, everybody has a history.

A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear from art what it does not hear from theology, philosophy, social theory, and what it cannot hear from pure science. Out of the struggle at the center has come an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

Let the enemies of life step down.