Everybody Is As Unstable As Water.

So Many Things Were Testing His Faith. There Was The Bible, Of Course, But The Bible Was A Book, And So Were Bleak House, Treasure Island, Ethan Frome And The Last Of The Mohicans. Did It Then Seem Probable, As He Had Once Overheard Dunbar Ask, That The Answers To Riddles Of Creation Would Be Supplied By People Too Ignorant To Understand The Mechanics Of Rainfall? Had Almighty God, In All His Infinite Wisdom, Really Been Afraid That Men Six Thousand Years Ago Would Succeed In Building A Tower To Heaven?

When I Look Up, I See People Cashing In. I Don't See Heaven Or Saints Or Angels. I See People Cashing In On Every Decent Impulse And Every Human Tragedy.

I Don't Understand The Process Of Imagination-though I Know That I Am Very Much At Its Mercy.

The Problem With The Loneliness I Suffer Is That The Company Of Others Has Never Been A Cure For It.

¨ Oh, I´m Not Complaining. I Know There´s A War On. I Know A Lot Of People Are Going To Have To Suffer For Us To Win It. But Why Must I Be One Of Them?¨