“All you need do, Bernie,she gulped her toast soaked in coffee, is present the truth as fiction.”

“And yet Curts a real writer too. His machinery is stuck, thats all.”

“Curt, my husband, is a writer, and hell never write again. Thats our funeral, as they say down south. Now in your case, my pet, youre married to a phenomenon of our own special epoch, a man who cou...”

“The last human of importance the American people have been able to keep in the working end of their brain is your own Chicago triggerman, Dillinger. After him they kind of lost hold on keeping whos...”

“Hes America in action opposed to quality.”

“But failure has kept Curt at home like a nice warm dachshund.”

“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...”