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

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.

Writers . . . write to give reality to experience.

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

The American journey has not ended. America is always still to build ... West is a country in the mind, and so eternal.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

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.