Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.
“Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it.”
“In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.”