All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. "'My God, my God — ' I said to myself, 'It's the Children's Crusade.

To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.

Human beings will believe in all kinds of things that aren't true, and that's okay. And TV is a part of that.

I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve. The best idea in that apple, though, is making jazz.

The more pain I train myself to stand, the more I learn. You are afraid of pain now, Unk, but you won't learn anything if you don't invite the pain. And the more you learn, the gladder you will be to stand the pain.