Quotes

I yield to no one in my distaste for the self-styled dog-lover, the kind who heaps up his frustrations and makes a dog carry

“If anywhere in your travels you come on a man with guts, mark the place. I want to go to see him. I haven’t

delight. But in the eating places along the roads the food has been clean, tasteless, colorless, and of a complete sameness. It is almost

I would have packed the W.P.A. Guides to the States, all forty-eight volumes of them. I have all of them, and some are very

The word “post” implied speed; in the Dictionary Johnson defined it as “quick course or manner of traveling.” That was achieved by frequent changes

Free thought and free expression, the quest for beauty and truth.

I realize now that there was something else about the Coopers that set them apart from other Negroes I have seen and met since.

We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to

“I loved the idea of being a professional poker player when I first heard the words. The whole idea was so glorious, of not

In an era when there was no effective defense against infectious disease, the toll among soldiers could be staggering. In the Seven Years War,