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

To separate journalism and poetry, therefore-history and poetry-to set them up at opposite ends of the world of discourse, is to separate seeing from the feel of seeing, emotion from the acting of emotion, knowledge from the realization of knowledge.

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

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

Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.

Children know the grace of god better than most of us. They see the world the way the morning brings it back to them; new and born and fresh and wonderful.

Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it.