I'm not incredibly hipster. I wasn't cool enough to handle it.

When I first moved to New York, I moved all over because I never knew where I would be or if I was going to Europe, so I would sublet apartments. It was miserable because I was constantly moving.

I always knew I was going to leave the Midwest but didn't really know how the opportunity would present itself. When it happened, I was like, "Yes, okay right now, I'm coming. Goodbye!"

The Americans don't like the American look but the Europeans just eat it up.

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.

The ghosts will eat everything because the bellies of ghosts want the whole world, just to fill one tiny corner.

August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.

A strike is an incipient revolution. Many large revolutions have grown out of a small strike.

President Lincoln called upon Americans to speak with one voice and one heart. That's just what we have to do.

Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.

It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.

There's nothing as dear as the sight of ruins.

Where dogmatics exists at all, it exists only with the will to be a Church dogmatics, a dogmatics of the ecumenical Church.

When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.