Because of the movies nobody will believe that it was babies who fought the war.

The government satirizes itself. All we can wish is that there will be a large number of Americans who will realize how dumb this all is, and how greedy and how vicious. Such an audience is dwindling all the time because of TV.

The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.

The economy is a thoughtless weather system.

... uncritical love is the only real treasure.

The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of religious skepticism. Humanists, by and large educated, comfortably middle-class persons with rewarding lives like mine, find rapture enough in secular knowledge and hope. Most people can't.

He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent.