My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'

War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.

Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.

Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.

Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.

Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.

If you're never ridden a fast horse at a dead run across a desert valley at dawn, be of good cheer: You've only missed out on one half of life.