The trick is to love somebody.... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.
The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.
You write in order to change the world.
Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
At four o'clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen.