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

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.

It is very funny about money. The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. All animals have the same emotions and the same ways as men. Anybody who has lots of animals around knows that. But the thing no animal can do is count, and the thing no animal can know is money.

When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.

It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.

To be regularly gay was to do every day the gay thing that they did every day. To be regularly gay was to end every day at the same time after they had been regularly gay. They were regularly gay. They were gay every day. They ended every day in the same way, at the same time, and they had been every day regularly gay.

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.