Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality. – Irving Howe
The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable. – Irving Howe

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality. – Irving Howe
The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable. – Irving Howe
The criteria for serving ones country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans. – Dianne Feinstein
What way should Victor take in the labyrinth of beauty?— All the sixty-four radii of the compass stretched themselves out as so many fingerposts, and he had sense enough not to propose to himself any particular hour of arriving. – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,