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.

Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique.

And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.

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

What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not completed to that point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, "It is finished. We made it, and it works.

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.

The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.