Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?

In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated.

This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground.

If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.

Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life?

Free people have a serious problem with place, being in a place, using up a place, deciding which new place to rotate to. Americans ricochet around the United States like billiard balls.

For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel, half beast, but no man...Some day a man will walk into my office as a ghost or beast or ghost-beast and walk out as a man, which is to say sovereign wanderer, lordly exile, worker and waiter and watcher.