When we passed a Catholic church, I recalled, he said, "You think your dad's a good chemist? They're turning soda crackers into meat in there. Can your dad do that?

I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.

I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.

One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.

George Bush and his gang imagine they are being political geniuses.

I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.