“What we all must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.”

“Juvenile appraisals of other juveniles make up in clarity what they lack in charity.”

“It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time and a fairly romantic nature to want to.”

“The 'teenager' seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.”

“It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time and a fairly romantic nature to want to.”

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It aint no disgrace to be po...”

“Youve changed me forever. And Ill never forget you.”

“Eduardo Galeano notes that America was conquered, but not discovered, that the men who arrived with a religion to impose and dreams of gold never really knew where they were, and that this discover...”

“Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one of the cardinal sins - is self pity. Self pity is the worst possible emo...”

“Ours is a shockingly dead view of creation. We ourselves are the only things in the universe to which we grant an authentic vitality, and because of this we are not fully alive.”

“Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.”