“There never will be anything more interesting than that American Civil War.”

“Think of anything, of cowboys, of movies, of detective stories, of anybody who goes anywhere or stays at home and is an American and you will realize that it is something strictly American to conceive a space that is filled with moving.”

“I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.”

“Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.”

“You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle. ”

“War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.”

“She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.”