You can’t spell American without “I can.

It has been observed that all Americans need a frontier: pain was hers, and she was determined to push it out.

I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.

Hundreds would die, but not the thing they died for.