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.

For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course, that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere. "Blessed are the merciful" in a courtroom? "Blessed are the peacemakers" in the Pentagon? Give me a break!

...Skyscraper National Park

We were all gun nuts and they were called varmints, crows were, because they ate grain and so did we.

I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

There were lots of things to stop and see-and then it was time to go, always time to go.