Who said “America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before…”?

“America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.”

“I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.”

“God bless the U.S.A., so large, So friendly, and so rich.”

“This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.”

“America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.”

“A functioning police state needs no police.”

“The face of evil is always the face of total need.”

“In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.”

“So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.”

“This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.”

“Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? ''And here is my good big centipede!'' If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.”