"All Presidents start out pretending to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something…"

"Some people say we are on the verge of the Second Civil War. And it may be so. But even on the darkest days, cheerful…"

"Moving among wretched people in mean places, as I often saw him do, he had the impulses of a saint but not the serenity."

"Even the prospect of early annihilation should not keep us from making the most of our days on this unhappy planet. I…"

"In life no such colour brightened the grey picture of a man devoted to the daily study of warfare on several continen…"

"LSD ... is one of the company of drugs now known as hallucinogens, and there is no doubt that in some people it produ…"

"To the goggling unbeliever Texans say — as people always say about their mangier dishes — "but it's just like chicken…"

"Probably, I wound up—if not as a jack-of-all-trades—at best as a thirdrate polymath never able to focus these curiosi…"

"During thirtyfive years as a foreign correspondent, I must have covered just about everything, from the public life o…"

"(The Negro) is a permanent invalid in American society. And the places he lives, whether in the town or the country, …"