The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

All America is much the same.

This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.

It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.

I don't know how people act. I've never understood that.

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.

Every day someone notices me and waves to me, or stops and speaks to me, or asks me for an autograph, or photographs me.