Spig Wead: I've been thinking what a heel I've been about you and about my own kids. I don't know, when I do something, I go all t...he way. Living. Gambling. Flying. I tap myself out. I guess that's the way I want it to be. Maybe even the way I am. Minne Wead: Star-spangled Spig. Damn the martinis, full speed ahead and don't give up the ship.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The whole enterprise of this nation, which is not an upward, but a westward one, toward Oregon, California, Japan, etc., is totall...y devoid of interest to me, whether performed on foot, or by a Pacific railroad.... It is perfectly heathenish,--a filibustering toward heaven by the great western route. No; they may go their way to their manifest destiny, which I trust is not mine.... I would rather be a captive knight, and let them all pass by, than be free only to go whither they are bound. What end do they propose to themselves beyond Japan? What aims more lofty have they than the prairie dogs?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyra...nnizing cruelly or beneficently over others; they go the way their nature guides them. Add to this the guidance of interest, and you will have the key to most social riddles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the trag...ic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I told them I'm not going to let Vietnam go the way of China. I told them to go back and tell those generals in Saigon that Lyndon... Johnson intends to stand by our word, but by God, I want something for my money. I want 'em to get off their butts and get out in those jungles and whip hell out of some Communists. And then I want 'em to leave me alone, because I've got some bigger things to do right here at home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »