A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.

I mean, I hate to gloat, but I'm extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.

I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity, if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church.