The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.

The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.

Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.

History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.

Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best.

The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop - for convenience, the one hundredth meridian - you have reached the West.

Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which the worst by far is rum. Nevertheless, we have improved man's lot and enriched his civilization with rye, bourbon and the Martini cocktail. In all history has any other nation done so much?