It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature.

The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself.

Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.

I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there.

Your war memories will be with you forever, you'll be asked about them thousands of times after the war is over. People will get their respect for you from that-partly from that, don't get me wrong-but if you can say that you were up front where there was some real shooting going on, then that will mean a whole lot to you in years to come.

It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral elements of his dreams.

It was hard to remember in the heavy and sensual clarity of these mornings; I forgot whom I hated and who hated me. I wanted to break out crying from stabs of hopeless joy, or intolerable promise, or because these mornings were too full of beauty for me, because I knew of too much hate to be contained in a world like this.