Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am. - Arthur Miller

Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the state has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied.

I personally think that what the big (writers) have in common is a fierce moral sensibility, which is unquenchable and they are all burning with the same anger at the way the world is.

The little ones have made a peace with it, and the bigger ones can't make any peace.

Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.