To suffer for the faith is not a penalty

Was it possible to be homesick for a soul?

Our children cannot be assumed to follow in our footsteps, assuage our losses, or compensate for our inadequacies.

Our lives were a series of extremes. A thanksgiving of riches was bestowed on us at birth: grace and joy and a fair share of beauty

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand

The world does not need white people to civilize others. The real White People's Burden is to civilize ourselves.

I don't mind getting older

We have hands

The Berglunds were the super-guilty sort of liberals who needed to forgive everybody so their own good fortune could be forgiven

A person who wields power cannot see truth

We can't remember things from our future

I returned from the West, and brought home in my nostrils and nerves that benumbing lethargy, imprudent hostility, and arrogant superiority with which the West viewed the fate of Eastern Europe.

We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and the sources of poetry.

Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen.

You are an explorer. You understand that every time you go into the studio, you are after something that does not yet exist.

I like a mysterious man. I like a man who reads and is knowledgeable about the world, but who doesn’t have to brag about it.

You can disagree with someone on issues, but you should never get personal. Joe Biden has never gotten personal, to my knowledge, with a fellow senator.

I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.

I don't watch the news. I get really emotional about it, and I carry that stuff with me for a long time.

First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical.

Girls are small and polite and smiley. They wear dresses and their hair is long and it’s pulled into shapes behind their heads or on either side.