When you have the goods, you don't need to dress up what you're writing.

Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved

Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.

Anytime you make a person into something other than himself, you make a monster.

A library should be like a pair of open arms.

The Constitution is more than literature, but as literature, it is primarily a work of the imagination. It imagined a country: fantastic. More fantastic still, it imagined a country full of people imagining themselves.

Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.