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.

Near a war is always not very near.

A FEATHER. A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get really get used to it.

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

Money is always there but the pockets change.