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

As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.

We are all born equally far from the sun.

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.

Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.

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.

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.