The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.

Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard -- by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off

See the world as it truly is, small and blue, beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats.

America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them.

There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream.

The American journey has not ended. America is always still to build ... West is a country in the mind, and so eternal.