We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along.

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

Altogether beautiful in the power of its feeling. As beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway.

The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax.

History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life on earth as a whole.

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.

We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along.