Writers . . . write to give reality to experience.

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

What you really have to know is one: yourself. And the only way you can know that one is in the mirror of the others. And the only way you can see into the mirror of the others is by love or its opposite—by profound emotion. Certainly not by curiosity—by dancing around asking, looking, making notes. You have to live relationships to know.

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.

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.

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

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.