But if not Kelso, then something else, because a free people must own the nation they live in.

Some flag waving is good, a lot of flag waving is tolerable, incessant flag waving is crazy and dangerous and easily manipulated by the war party to get people bubbling at the mouth in fear and rage.

Taken as a whole the mass media seldom rises to the level of deplorable trash, but it is also true that there is no mass audience in America for anything better.

Tens of billions ... are going into the pockets of tens of thousands of tax preparers who ... love complexity as much as the rest of us hate it

Americans will quarrel over how, who, or what to rescue or save, but the idea that the nation ought to be off doing it is challenged only by a few.

We are the people are parents warned us against.

Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U.S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding themselves.

The blame for the maddening complications of the federal tax system goes to the people with the most money

When you try hard to find happiness for other, you will unknowingly find yourself on the island of happiness.

And though her husband will appear to come alive, she knows that it is lust - too quickly ignited and too quickly extinguished - that animates him.

Type well used is invisible as type, just as the perfect talking voice is the unnoticed vehicle for the transmission of words, ideas.

People care a lot that the USA is well run, and people globally expect us to do things in upgrading science and more.

When you locate a bargain, you must ask, 'Why me, God? Why am I the only one who could find this bargain?'

We have nothing against Communism.

No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world.

Once the call of God comes to you, start going and never stop.

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something

I'm trying to create flesh architecture. I aim to get a sculptural feel for groups of bodies, as well as create performance art.