Loeb has been doing wonderfully patient work, exploring the American conscience from the inside. I regard him as something of a national treasure.

To read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices and frustrations of this one. Reading was balm, amusement not incitement.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

It's not that you make up your ideas to justify your temperament but that it's the temperament first.

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.

Creativity needs to be taken care of. It's like a big baby that needs to be nourished.