The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.