A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.

It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye.

The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.

Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.