I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn’t make yourself over between dawn and dusk.

What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.

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.

Young people in my generation were sort of in lockstep, and it wasn't just the '40s, either. In the '30s and in the '50s it was the same. No one ever dropped out unless he got sick or got kicked out.

You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it’s the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.

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

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