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

If we practiced medicine like we practice education, wed look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.

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

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.

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

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.

I had to admit that in his old-fashioned way O'Hara was still romantic about sex; like Scott Fitzgerald, he thought of it as an upper-class prerogative.