Louis Simpson Inspirational Quotes (7)

All that grave weight of America Cancelled! Like Greece and Rome. The future in ruins!

Being shelled is the main work of an infantry soldier, which no one talks about. Everyone has his own way of going about it. In general, it means lying face down and contracting your body into as small a space as possible.

In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup And talk of the old country--mud and boards, Poverty, The snow falling down and necks of lovers.

The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.

I gave no prescriptions, And those who have taken my moods for prophecies Mistake the matter.

The treasures of Cathay were never found. In this America, this wilderness Where the axe echoes with a lonely sound, The generations labor to possess And grave by grave we civilize the ground.

It's complicated, being an American, Having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time.