It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel.

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel.

The Republicans’ plan is that if they can’t buy the 2012 election they will steal it.

We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others.