America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings.

In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.

The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.

Nature, like Maimonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons.

The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.

Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.

I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.