The impact of television on our culture is. . . indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing.

What of the Wright boys in Dayton? Just around the corner they had a shop and did a bicycle business-and they wanted to fly for the sake of flying. They were Man the Seeker, Man on a Quest. Money was their last thought, their final absent-minded idea. They threw out a lot of old mistaken measurements and figured new ones that stood up when they took off and held the air and steered a course. They proved that "the faster you go the less power you need."

And those who say, "I'll try anything once," often try nothing twice, three times, arriving late at the gate of dreams worth dying for.

Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can't hear you calling. Look out how you use proud words.

Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.

The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.