"Canada is the greatest nation in this country."

“Japan will not abandon the fight for the Philippines even if Tokyo should be reduced to ashes!”

Source : "Nips to Keep Philippines Even if Tokyo Falls". Los Angeles Times, February 4, 1945.

“I gasp, because Isn't that just exactly what I've been doing too: writing poems and scattering them to the winds with the same hope as Gram that someone, someday, somewhere might understand who I am, who my sister was, and what happened to us.”

“And thou art terrible--the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier; And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine.”

Source : Fitz-Greene Halleck (1827). “Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems”, p.13

“Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.”

“The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out.”

“You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice.”

“What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.”

“There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.”

Source : Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press