Since the individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining, the average man must take to daydreaming.

Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, "I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any." We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.

How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.

I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.

There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

The United States is my subject, but as Hawthorne once wrote, "the United States are suited for many admirable purposes, but not to live in."