Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.

You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.

The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.

You have never seen greatness in a Presidency; I have. It was a rich kid who you would think had every reason to be a horse's ass - Franklin Roosevelt. He was humane and wise and resourceful. He was called a traitor to his class. With George Bush, that charge would never stick.

Take life seriously but none of the people in it.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting.

Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?