We should have absolute control over our borders. If we want cheap labor to depress wages and disempower the unions, then we could have guest workers. But we have to face that issue. What is it that we want to do? Rather than not facing it, and having porous borders, and the effect is that it disempowers the unions.

I made a boy's mistake, common enough, of thinking that real life was knowing many things and many people, living dangerously in faraway places, crossing the sea, or starting a power company on the Columbia River, a steamship line in Bolivia.

Then the bow orchestra began to play an apocalyptically beautiful canon, one of those pieces in which, surely, the composer simply transcribed what was given, and trembled in awe of the hand that was guiding him.

To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been.

I have been fighting over commas all my life.

For what can be imagined more beautiful than the sight of a perfectly just city rejoicing in justice alone.

All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents.