The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced.

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say that they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politician stays unch…

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times; a dozen or two dozen times and…

My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and po…

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

The individual has been allowed out of his socially constructed cage. That, at least, is the contemporary myth. What is not clear, however, is what that libera…