The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them?

The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.

Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an "equalizer."

Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.

It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.

A house built on greed cannot long endure.