Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.

Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

America is now liberty-conscious. In a single generation it has progressed from being toothbrush-conscious, to being air-minded, to being liberty-conscious.

You have been my friends. That in itself is a tremendous thing.

Of course, it may be that the arts of writing and photography are antithetical. The hope and aim of a word-handler is that he maycommunicate a thought or an impression to his reader without the reader's realizing that he has been dragged through a series of hazardous or grotesque syntactical situations. In photography the goal seems to be to prove beyond a doubt that the cameraman, in his great moment of creation, was either hanging by his heels from the rafters or was wedged under the floor with his lens in a knothole.