Every man sees in his relatives and especially in his cousins a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me....
All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion whatever else it has done has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.
