If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.

The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.

She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.

I often think how celebrated I am. / It is difficult not to think how celebrated I am. / And if I think how celebrated I am / They know who know that I am new / That is I knew I know how celebrated I am / And after all it astonishes even me.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.