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.

America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them.

The roots of the grass strain, Tighten, the earth is rigid, waits-he is waiting- And suddenly, and all at once, the rain!

What once was cuddled must learn to kiss The cold wonn's mouth. That's all the mystery.

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.

A self-advertising writer is always a self-extinguished writer.