What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.

A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.

The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and beauty.

America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them.

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.

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