Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.

. . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.

The city was blacked out because bombers might come, so Billy didn't get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful things a city can do when the sun goes down, which is to wink its lights on one by one.

I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure beat dying for absolutely nothing in the Viet Nam War.

I'm mad about being old and I'm mad about being American. Apart from that, OK.

I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.

I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.