Each one of us has to be what he or she is.

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

American Rifleman and Field & Stream had ads for "varmint guns." Another varmint was a ground hog because a horse would be going along and he'd stick his foot in a ground hog hole and break his leg. So we were trying to prevent that, too. But we finally scared ourselves. We didn't realize we were nuts.

The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her. "Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on?" she asked me. "The big show is inside my head," I said.

Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.

He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest.

Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war.