Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

The right of the people to peacefully assemble and petition their government for a redress of grievances is now worth a pitcher of warm spit. That's because TV will not come and treat it respectfully. Television is really something.

Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

... uncritical love is the only real treasure.

My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand.