It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led West.

No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide.

History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.

Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?

I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, smooth to green glass over sunken rocks, shatter to foam again. I was fascinated by how it sped by and yet was always there; its roar shook both the earth and me.

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.