To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.
“Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.”
“As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.”