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

You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. "'My God, my God — ' I said to myself, 'It's the Children's Crusade.

I never knew a writer's wife who wasn't beautiful.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.

One thing I learned, with permission of the school committee of Indianapolis, was that when a tyrant or a government gets in trouble it wonders what to do. Declare war! Then nothing else matters. It's like chess; when in doubt, castle.

I have become an enthusiast for the printed word again. I have to be that, I now understand, because I want to be a character in all of my works. I can do that in print. In a movie, somehow, the author always vanishes.