What I was trying to say, maybe, is that I don't know what it is I'm capable of transforming into.

It’s the way I walk through the world, carrying that fear, that the beloved will go, will die, and that I will be the one to blame.

How can I know who I am when I am all this?

Plans never go well for me. I just live every day like I aint gonna live the next one.

Come on. I got drunk when I was like 5.

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

I think of the flower in the bud: huddled, compressed, dark. Yet somehow it feels the night, knows moon from sun. It waits...waits.

We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.

Being American is not a matter of birth. We must practice it every day, lest we become something else.

NAFTA was much more popular among US corporations than GATT, because NAFTA is highly protectionist in ways that GATT is not.

Man is an organism, not a mechanism; and the mechanical pacing of his life does harm to his human responses, which naturally follow a kind of free rhythm.