Darling Quotes

“The traditional task of the writer in California has been to write about what it means to be human in a place advertised as paradise.”
― Richard Rodríguez, [Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography] [By: Rodriguez, Richard] [August, 2014]

“...flesh is a complicated medium for grace.”
― Richard Rodríguez, [Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography] [By: Rodriguez, Richard] [August, 2014]

“The power the old exert over the young is the power to send the young to war -- flesh in its perfection dropped into a hellish maze of stimulus and response in order to defend an old man's phrase. A phrase! What? The American way of life? Yes. It galls me to say it, but yes. This paragraph costs me nothing. And yet I know it cost the life of a boy or a girl with a ready body and a mind not ripe. N one will come to question me this evening.”
― Richard Rodríguez, Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography