Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

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.

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

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.

We have learned the answers, all the answers: it is the question that we do not know.

How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when it is attacked by authoritarian dogma. Always, in the final act, by determination and faith.

Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.