"America has never quite forgiven Europe for..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.”

“It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.”

“Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.”

“There was something refreshingly and wildly musical to my ears in the very name of the white man's canoe, reminding me of Charlevoix and Canadian Voyageurs. The batteau is a sort of mongrel between the canoe and the boat, a fur-trader's boat.”

“Islam has always been part of America”

“History is the memory of a nation”

“I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.”

“America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.”

“American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.”