Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.

...chaos doesn't run the whole show.

Well, everybody has a history.

I would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence.

In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably the most dangerous people seek the power. While in the parlors of indignation the right-thinking citizen brings his heart to a boil. (p. 51)

When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.