But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.
“When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.”
“There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.”