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.

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.

We are all born equally far from the sun.

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.

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.

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

Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him.