The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is.

Everywhere there was somewhere and everywhere there they were men women children dogs cows wild pigs little rabbits cats lizards and animals. That is the way it was. And everybody dogs cats sheep rabbits and lizards and children all wanted to tell ... all about themselves.

I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.

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.

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.

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.

Nature is not natural and that is natural enough.