You become who you pretend to be.

Bad guys turned informer. Good guys didn't - no matter when, no matter what.

It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!

What geography can give all Middle Westerners, along with the fresh water and topsoil, if they let it, is awe for an Edenic continent stretching forever in all directions. Makes you religious. Takes your breath away.

Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan.

The champagne was dead. So it goes.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.