It Is A Maudlin And Indecent Verity

The Discovery Of America Was The Occasion Of The Greatest Outburst Of Cruelty And Reckless Greed Known In History.

[the Artist] Speaks To Our Capacity For Delight And Wonder, To The Sense Of Mystery Surrounding Our Lives; To Our Sense Of Pity, And Beauty, And Pain; To The Latent Feeling Of Fellowship With All Creation--and To The Subtle But Invincible Conviction Of Solidarity In Dreams, In Joy, In Sorrow, In Aspirations, In Illusions, In Hope, In Fear…which Binds Together All Humanity--the Dead To The Living And The Living To The Unborn.

Who Would Care To Question The Ground Of Forgiveness Or Compassion.

I Do Not Know Whether I Have Been A Good Seaman, But I Know I Have Been A Very Faithful One.

I Am Afraid That If You Want To Go Down Into History You'll Have To Do Something For It.