Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

The typhoon came out of the sea first as a deep hollow roar. ... I was surrounded by the madness, the unreason, of uncontrolled, undisciplined energy. None of this made any sense. It was worse than useless - it was nature destroying its own creation - its own self. To create by the long process of growth and then to destroy by a fit of wild emotion - was this not madness, was this not unreason?

when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.

Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life.

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.

Vermont is a country unto itself.