“America needs to relearn a lost discipline, self-confident relentlessness...”

“As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.”

“Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.”

“The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.”

“America needs to relearn a lost discipline, self-confident relentlessness...”

“Evil possesses an instinct for theater, which is why, in an era of gaudy and gifted media, evil may vastly magnify its damage by the power of horrific images.”

“People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way.”