Traveling is like dancing lessons from God.

Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.

Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.

On the day they dropped the bomb Frank had a tablespoon and a Mason jar. What he was doing was spooning different kinds of bugs into the jar and making them fight....I can remember other bug fights we staged later on...They won't fight unless you keep shaking the jar.

You know who was a hero? Franklin Roosevelt.

We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.