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

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

To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night ~ brothers who see now they are truly brothers.

There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream.

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.

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

See the world as it truly is, small and blue, beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats.