"A Man Without a Country" Quotes

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.

I used to be the owner and manager of an automobile dealership in West Barnstable, Massachusetts, called 'Saab Cape Cod'. But I was fired by my multinational employers for, among other things, giving unauthorized test drives to Ralph Nader and Joan Baez.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

I asked him what he thought life was all about. 'That's easy,' he said. 'Life is about the third person singular.'

I can have oodles of charm when I want to.

I am a human being, not a human doing.

And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.

The United States of America is still run by its citizens. The government is still 'us.'