“The marriage seemed to flourish on Fathers extended absences. Ragtime”

“Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.”

“Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.”

“Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images.”

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”

“Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing.”

“You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist.”

“True spirituality is "the place where desperation meets Jesus.”

“In Jesus the full meaning of peace is revealed: he gave peace, made peace and is our peace (Jn. 14:27; Eph. 2:14f.).”

“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”

“But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.”

“Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of ...”