My special situation was that I was the son and grandson of architects. And so I saw building. We were building the city, and that was exciting.

All right - I'll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.

It is almost always a mistake to mention Abraham Lincoln. He always steals the show.

Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue, the monograph went on. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact how hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves.

I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I can control my life or my writing. Every other writer I know feels he is steering himself, and I don't have that feeling. I don't have that sort of control. I'm simply becoming. I'm startled that I became a writer.

The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?