Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.

- James Carroll

We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things....but, there are times when we must stop.…

- James Carroll

American fighters of the Pacific War were not heroes. The desperation of island combat included exchanged barbarities of which no one would willingly…

- James Carroll

Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of ordering one's inner l…

- James Carroll

The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort and ease and pl…

- James Carroll

It takes a disciplined imagination to acknowledge that the less personal savageries of bombs, missiles, artillery and heavy weapons are, to those blo…

- James Carroll

The very act of story-telling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of the narrative, is by definition holy. We tell stories …

- James Carroll

There are so many flaws, .. I don't think they can be fixed.

- James Carroll

There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

- James Carroll