The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.

I am beguiled by your physical beauty, and I am moved by how head-over-heels in love with books you are. And nowhere else have I found such thoughtful and literate reportage on the state of the American soul, as that soul makes itself known in the books we write.

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.

We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are.

It often is a terrible insult to some families if one of the kids turns out to be an artist and that's one way to really shake up the family if you haven't got nerve enough to turn into a homosexual.

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun.