War for most men is not fighting or marching in parades. It is sitting around somewhere wondering what the hell you are supposed to be doing.

I worship the quicksand he [Richard Nixon] walks in.

I didn't go on dialysis because I was 81 years old and I'd done everything I wanted, or so I thought.

On the whole I woke up in the morning and was happy to be alive.

There isn't a child who hasn't gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn't return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of dirty clothes.

I have no idea where I'm going but here's the real question: What am I doing here in the first place?

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.