I'm usually the yes guy, and I had to turn into a no guy.
Maintain yourself and everything maintains itself around you.
San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality.
At first I was iridescent, then I became transparent, finally I was absent
If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.
I think most non-Christians who try to be good people are probably better Christians than Christians.
The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.
I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world-enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites-causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity.
I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locomotive in his chest, and that's a fact," not the only youth with a million hungers and not one of them appeasable, not the only one who is lonely among multitudes, and does not know why.
The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.
I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area, but it's one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can't be a relatively pure outlet, a fun thing, then it hurts itself.