Our freedom must be buttressed by a homogeny equally and unchallengeably free, no matter what color they are, so that all the other inimical forces everywhere -- systems political or religious or racial or national -- will not just respect us because we practice freedom, they will fear us because we do.

When I was a boy I first learned how much better water tastes when it has set a while in a cedar bucket. Warmish-cool, with a faint taste like the hot July wind in Cedar trees smells.

And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.

He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.

Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.

How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you