Quote by Robert L. O'Connell

“In a way he was lucky. He was a member of a generation that thought it was a good, even joyous, political idea to…

— Grace Paley

“advancing your careers in some way?” A minute ago he loved America and Americans.”

— Arianne Richmonde

“He was one of those people whose ideas are too lively to be confined in their brains and spill out into the world to…

— Susanna Clarke

“There was some simple, radical difference about him. He hoped it was genius, feared it was madness, devoted himself to amiability and inconspicuousness.”

— John Barth

“He had been told that in America, if you worked hard, anything was possible.”

— Fannie Flagg

“The typical American, after he has lost the foundations of his existence, works for new foundations.”

— Paul Tillich

“He always had to act in an obnoxiously idiosyncratic way.”

— Heather O'Neill

“Americans were known for a zealous and often immoderate attachment to the United States and all it represented.”

— David H. Finnie

“I had no trouble with his readiness to change his attitude. I despise the oppression of social hierarchies and seniority-based systems, unless I'm the…

— Wataru Watari

“mold—William Henry Yale also subscribed to Roosevelt’s notions of the ideal American man and of the dangers of “over-civilization,” code for effeminacy. The true…

— Scott Anderson

“...As with many American conversations, the words he spoke had not conveyed what he had intended by them. He could never decide if it…

— Laila Halaby

“What might have happened to them to make them the way they were? It did not change what they now did, but it changed,…

— Sherwood Smith