Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and death was only a slipping out of it altogether and being at last what he always was, a spirit. We buried the pearly shell upon the mountain top.

I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.

Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.

starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.

Vermont is a country unto itself.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.