It is somethingit can be everything-to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking and boasting and reciting and fighting go on below.

We made plenty of mistakes, but we never tripped anybody to gain an advantage, or took illegal shortcuts when no judge was around. We have all jogged and panted it out the whole way.

We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.

American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.

National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.

We are fossils in the making.

Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.