A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.

I have lived too long in foreign parts

I could come back to America..to die..but never, never to live.

You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.

When I am wicked I am in high spirits.

Excellence does not require perfection.

Autobiography may be the preeminent kind of American expression.