All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way-if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy.

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.

As I walked briskly out the road the wind knifed at my face, but this sun caressed the back of my neck.

Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.

I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.

The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.

So the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even a death by violence.