Writers . . . Write To Give

What Is More Important In A Library Than Anything Else-than Everything Else-is The Fact That It Exists.

Spring Has Many American Faces. There Are Cities Where It Will Come And Go In A Day And Counties Where It Hangs Around And Never Quite Gets There. Summer Is Drawn Blinds In Louisiana, Long Winds In Wyoming, Shade Of Elms And Maples In New England.

What Is Wrong Is Not The Great Discoveries Of Science—information Is Always Better Than Ignorance, No Matter What Information Or What Ignorance. What Is Wrong Is The Belief Behind The Information, The Belief That Information Will Change The World. It Won’t.

To Separate Journalism And Poetry, Therefore-history And Poetry-to Set Them Up At Opposite Ends Of The World Of Discourse, Is To Separate Seeing From The Feel Of Seeing, Emotion From The Acting Of Emotion, Knowledge From The Realization Of Knowledge.

We Have No Choice But To Be Guilty. God Is Unthinkable If We Are Innocent.