What is more important in a library than anything else — is the fact that it exists. - Archibald MacLeish

If God is God, he is not good. If God is good, he is not God.

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life—to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.