Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.
Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up a pen you become a snob, your own worse critic. You edit yourself in a way that is non-creative.