There's almost nothing like native Midwesterner anywhere else in the world, except in Asia. They're miracles all in themselves.

The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?" It doesn't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period. This is it: "Nothing.

For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold." And there certainly was an analogy there: Colds and babies were both caused by germs which loved nothing so much as a mucous membrane.

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers.

I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash.

The most heartbreakingly beautiful girl I ever hope to see

Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.