“Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.”

A culture of honor is celebrating who a person is without stumbling over who they’re not.

As Mr. Nagle so competently points out, almost no one uses Eiffel; in fact until recently there were only 9 users. But now a 10th person just started, so we are holding a conference, appropriately titled the TENTH Eiffel USER conference, to celebrate.

If you make a mistake, celebrate.

[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of the free press. The U.S. celebrates free press.

What is it about conformity itself that causes us all to require it of our neighbors and of our artists and then, with consummate fickleness, to forget those who fall into line and eternally celebrate those who do not?

Just because you came here in 1880, 1950, whenever, you became an American. You get to celebrate July 4th like every other American.

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.