He had shown it so often that I think it was more real to him now than the house itself.

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grown in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

Sometimes I wish I'd been an Englishman; American life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy.

It's just a crazy old thing. I just slip it on sometimes when I don't care what I look like.

Can't repeat the past? why of course you can!

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry

Modern life changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before...

The church is not called to be a "change agent"—God is the agent of change. The Lord of the cosmos has already wrought the Great Exchange in his cross and resurrection, and the life of the people of God is sustained by that mighty enterprise. The calling of the church is to place itself where God is already at work.

I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

At 26 or 27, I was fatter than anyone.

Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something.

One reason whites, men, and Christians are so hated by the elitist establishment is that they tend to be conservative.