Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world. And their manners were their own business. And so were their politics. And so, but ten times so, were their souls.
The only thing about a man that is a man… is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.
A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard — by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off