A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.

Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.

The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.

The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.

A society is only as healthy as its ideas are humane.

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.

See the cat? See the cradle?