I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow

Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.

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

There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences

No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts.

Largeness is a lifelong matter - sometimes a conscious goal, sometimes not. You enlarge yourself because that is the kind of individual you are. You grow because you are not content not to.

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.