Hugh Forrest Quotations

We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.

William: It's as if I've taken love heroin, and now I can't ever have it again.

Every European visitor to the United States is struck by the comparative rarity of what he would call a face, by the frequency of men and women who look like elderly babies. If he stays in the States for any length of time, he will learn that this cannot be put down to a lack of sensibility -- the American feels the joys and sufferings of human life as keenly as anybody else. The only plausible explanation I can find lies in his different attitude to the past. To have a face, in the European sense of the word, it would seem that one must not only enjoy and suffer but also desire to preserve the memory of even the most humiliating and unpleasant experiences of the past.

Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.

You have to see the sex act comically, as a child.

As much as things change, they stay the same. There is still controversy about, maybe even more than before, not just nudity a nude statue.

''God is Love,'' we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

''Healing,'' Papa would tell me, ''is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.''

I've been hyped up by the papers, by everybody. I've read all of it, and it's great, but I'm not the guy the papers make me out to be until I prove myself. And that's what I'm going to do Saturday.