There are some people whom we envy not because they are rich or handsome or successful, although they may be all or any of these, but because everything they are or do seems to be all of a piece, so that even if they wanted to they could not be or do otherwise.

Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.

Something needn't be large to be good.

Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed home and thought of here? Where should we be today?

I've never written the things I'd like to write that I've admired all my life. Maybe one never does.

Close, close all night the lovers keep. They turn together in their sleep, Close as two pages in a book that read each other in the dark. Each knows all the other knows, learned by heart from head to toes.

Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove and the child draws another inscrutable house.