I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).

That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.

Mothers are all slightly insane.

But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the other men, all of us talking, writing, painting, making movies of heroes, and cockroaches and foxholes and blood, then future generations will always be doomed to future Hitlers. It's never occurred to boys to have contempt for wars, to point to soldiers' pictures in history books, laughing at them. If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm.

The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.

Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first one who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior.

Oh, it's lovely to see you!' Franny said as the cab moved off. 'I've missed you.' The words were no sooner out than she realized that she didn't mean them at all.