We are what we pretend to be.

It was headquartered in Michigan City, a long way off. I never saw Ku Klux Klan march.

Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.

And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.

And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.