What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives

God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us

The problem is fundamental... It is as if a secret committee, now lost to history, has made a study of children and, having figured out what the greatest number were least disposed to declared that all of them should do it.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you to dress in a suit and go get them food and water. Comma.

In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.

...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.