I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.

It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief.

... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

Be truthful... and pay attention. I would also recommend the avoidance of credit cards.

Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.

On the wall of our life together hung a gun waiting to be fired in the final act.

The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable.