But a man needs company.

A stilted heron labored up into the air and pounded down the river.

It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of gathering knowledge does not lead to knowing. A child's world spreads only a little beyond his understanding while that of a great scientist thrusts outward immeasurably. An answer is invariably the parent of a great family of new questions. So we draw worlds and fit them like tracings against the world about us, and crumple them when we find they do not fit and draw new ones.

One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all the cards.

Within that frame he went a long way and burned a deep scar.

It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it.

How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the dream - be set down alive?