See the world as it truly is, small and blue, beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats.

What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists.

There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world.

Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.