The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.
The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.
There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.