I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn.

There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books

You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

My one thought is to get out of New York, to experience something genuinely American.

I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.