The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.

There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore.

I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.

In the water I am beautiful.

The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.

He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.

It is harder to be unhappy when you are eating.