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.

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.

in nonsense is strength

The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.

Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.

If you make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical joke? All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.

As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash.