The American journey has not ended. America is always still to build ... West is a country in the mind, and so eternal.

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

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

The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by it's author's explanations it never should have been published, and if the poem cannot be improved by its author's explanations the explanations are scarcely worth reading.

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

You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.

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.