As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.
“If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.”
“I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths.”