We know what we got, and we don't care whether you know it or not.

I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments

To be alive at all is to have scars.

Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis.

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.