It posed the question posed by all such stone piles.: how had puny men moved stones so big? And, like all such stone piles, it answered the question itself. Dumb terror had moved those stones so big

In those days great teachers at Shortridge [High School] were celebrities. I would look up to them.

It was a thunderingly beautiful experience-voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.

My God, the religious right will not acknowledge what a merciful person Jesus was.

I think, therefore I am, therefore I am photographable.

The other American divisions on our flanks managed to pull out: We were obliged to stay and fight. Bayonets aren't much good against tanks.

The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a gentleman.