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

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

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

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

Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.

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.

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.