Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (All The King's Men)

What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract storm.

To be an American is not...a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea--and history is the image of that idea.

Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.

History is all explained by geography.

A look at the past reminds us of how great is the distance, and how short, over which we have come. The past makes us ask what we have done with us. It makes us ask whether our very achievements are not ironical counterpoint and contrast to our fundamental failures.

Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.