Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

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

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

I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.

... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.

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.

I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.