The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.

One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.

It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.

To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.

Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.

We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact

The difficult and risky task of meeting and mastering the new . . . is not undertaken by the vanguard of society but by its rear. It is the misfits, failures, fugitives, outcasts and their like who are among the first to grapple with the new.