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

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.

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time, in others' minds.

I liked reading and working out my ideas in the midst of that endless crowd walking in and out of the (library) looking for something. I, too, was seeking fame and fortune by sitting at the end of a long golden table next to the sets of American authors on the open shelves.

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

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

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.