Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.

If somebody says I love you to me I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires I love you too.

Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other when they fight Please a little less love and a little more common decency.

And yet another moral occurs to me now Make love when you can. Its good for you.

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth but its people are mainly poor and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard It aint no disgrace to be poor but it might as well be. It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment owned by a man who is himself poor is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question if youre so smart why aint you rich There will also be an American flag no larger than a childs hand glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register.Americans like human beings everywhere believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by and therefore those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful who have had to do less for their poor publicly and privately than any other ruling class since say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these a thing without precedent is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.

A purpose of human life no matter who is controlling it is to love whoever is around to be loved.