Confess: it's my profession that alarms you. This is why few people ask me to dinner, though Lord knows I don't go out of my way to be scary.

There is so much silence between the words, you say. You say, The sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse.…

If I roll my eyes and mutter, if I clutch at my heart and scream in horror like a third-rate actress chewing up a mad scene, I do it in private and nobody sees…

NOTES: Jean Cololere, a drummer in the colonial troops at Quebec, was imprisoned for duelling in 1751. In the cell next to his was Francoise Laurent, who had b…

Curiously enough he found in senior year that he had acquired a position in his class. He learned that he was looked upon as a rather romantic figure, a schola…

The observer is the observed.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.