I am glad my life is coming to an end. To think that it might last another five hundred years, now that would be terrible, in my case.
Gore VidalThe world came so close to self-destruction during my lifetime. I was serving in the American Army, in the Pacific, at the time they bombed Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, and I felt there something like a foretaste of the end of the world.
Gore Vidal