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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast.