I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.

Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again.

You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.

I have a big mouth, and I never met a petition I didn't like, so of course in the McCarthy days I got in trouble.

I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real