So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all.

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

Sarcasm is the protest of the weak.

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.

But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth.

The summer of 1943 at Exeter was as happy a time as I ever had in my life.

It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart