The American journey has not ended. America is always still to build ... West is a country in the mind, and so eternal.
Archibald MacLeishPiety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.
Archibald MacLeishWhat happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.
Archibald MacLeishThat peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations.
Archibald MacLeish