"Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."

"You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life."

"Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better."

"A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience."

"Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart."

"the music was human; the static was natural."

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."

"Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country."

"It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it."

"England and America are two countries separated by a common language."

"America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered."

"In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is."