I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.

If [America] forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.

Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.

You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.