But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

A real writer is always shifting and changing and searching.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads and in the teeth of the most terrifying odds achieved an unassailable and monumental dignity You come from a long line of great poets some of the greatest poets since Homer. One of them said "The very time I thought I was lost My dungeon shook and my chains fell off." You know and I know that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too soon. We cannot be free until they are free. God bless you James and Godspeed.