The map of America is a map of endlessness, of opening out, of forever and ever. No man's face would make you think of it but his hope might, his courage might.

Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.

Love becomes the ultimate answer to the ultimate human question.

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

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.

If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published.

If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.