The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings.

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

God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.

I find more and more, as I grow older, that I prefer women to men, children to adults, animals to humans.... And rocks to living things? No, I'm not that old yet.

James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.