When We Define Democracy Now It Must

For Our Democracy Has Been Marred By Imperialism, And It Has Been Enlightened Only By Individual And Sporadic Efforts At Freedom.

One Faces The Future With One's Past.

Never, If You Can Possibly Help It, Write A Novel. It Is, In The First Place, A Thoroughly Unsocial Act. It Makes One Obnoxious To One's Family And To One's Friends. One Sits About For Many Weeks, Months, Even Years, In The Worst Cases, In A State Of Stupefaction.

From That House There Has Come So Much Life That It Ought Never To Die Or Fall Into Ruin... For Me That House Was A Gateway To America.

No One Really Understood Music Unless He Was A Scientist, Her Father Had Declared, And Not Just A Scientist, Either, Oh, No, Only The Real Ones, The Theoreticians, Whose Language Was Mathematics. She Had Not Understood Mathematics Until He Had Explained To Her That It Was The Symbolic Language Of Relationships. "and Relationships," He Had Told Her, "contained The Essential Meaning Of Life."