Piety can also serve as a wall to keep the pious from recognizing how profoundly angry they are at God — this God who has failed to treat them by wha… - Norman Mailer

Eleanor Roosevelt, fine, precise, hand-worked like ivory. Her voice was almost attractive … One had the impression of a lady who was finally becoming a woman, which is to say that she was just a little bitchy about it all; nice bitchy, charming, it had a touch of art to it, but it made one wonder if she were not now satisfying the last passion of them all, which was to become physically attractive, for she was better-looking than she had ever been.

Comfortless was my religion, anxiety of the anxieties, for I believed God was not love, but courage. Love came only as a reward.

What enables devils to survive is that we are wise enough to understand that there are no answers — there are only questions.