“Enough fussing and whining. How much longer will the crying go on?”

“Morning's great that way. You can cry yourself to sleep and wake up wondering what the fuss was over.”

“Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.”

“It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now”

“No 'Glory shall be your reward' for me. Oh, no, for me, it is, 'Stop whining' and 'Go to bed'.”

“Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.”

“Populism is ultimately sustained by the frustrated exasperation of ordinary people, by the cry "I don't know what's going on, but I've just had enough of it! It cannot go on! It must stop!"”

“How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be "American" before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, & having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?”

“The War Between the States was about independence, about self-determination, about the right of a people to break free of a government to which they could no longer give allegiance… How long is this endless groveling before every cry of 'racism' going to continue before the whole country collectively throws up?”

“I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like.”