We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Occasionally I encounter people getting into their cars who will say, "Oh, you haven't been walking lately" - like I'm a symbol of the ancient art of walking!

There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff.

Money is sullen And wisdom is sly, But youth is the pollen That blows through the sky And does not ask why.

And Thames and all the rivers of the kings Ran into Mississippi and were drowned. They planted England with a stubborn trust But the cleft dust was never English dust.

American Muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art, Because you are as various as your land.

If two New Hampshiremen aren't a match for the devil, we might as well give the country back to the Indians.