O lands! O all so dear to me — what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is. – Walt Whitman
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. – Walt Whitman

O lands! O all so dear to me — what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is. – Walt Whitman
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. – Walt Whitman
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. – Walt Whitman
Topographically the country is magnificent — and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak. – Henry Miller
The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him…. He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wartime Writings 1939-1944, translated from French by