“That's religion in America, under constant revision.”

“The process of revision should be constant and endless”

“That's the one good thing about the human brain, it constantly revises the past, cutting bits here, adding bits there, presenting it in an even more palatable way - the way we would have liked things to have been, rather than the way they really are.”

“Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. What he takes in he takes in normally the way any person takes in experience. But it is what is done with it in his mind, if he is a real writer, that makes his art.”

“Mingling religion with politics may be disavowedand reprobated by every inhabitant of America.”

“Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.”