To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preoccupation with death, and to see the futility of anything except virtue.

Every fool in error can find a passage of scripture to back him up

He who is less than just is less than man.

This tendency to make laws that are convenient or advantageous rather than right has mushroomed.

If we say, as we do, that no one in this country intends for racism to lead to genocide, the effects of racism are genocidal, regardless of our intentions.

He was one of those young men who possess an impressive store of facts, but no truths.

The author explains that some find recourse from injustice in literature and art but that these tend to deepen sensitivity to injustice rather than dull it.

If virtue does not equal powers, powers will be misused.

It was a little thing, but on top of the other little things, it broke something in me.

Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty

In the context of today, this WAS heroism.

I walked out. I left. Andy Jankowski had taught me how.

Culture is like the visible and invisible levels of an iceberg -”the solid state of “water.

Poverty is a condition that resides in the heart . . . not in the wallet.

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air.

The soul is one with its faith.

I'm always reading. I have four books on my nightstand right now. The same is true with writing, I tend to work on several varying projects at once.

When the deepest part of you becomes engaged in what you are doing...you are doing what you were meant to be doing.

The point isn't to know what you're doing. The point is to have an experience doing something.

At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing.