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.

Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.

What passes for culture in my head is really a bunch of commercials.

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

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

Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place.

The polls demonstrate that 50 percent of Americans who get their news from TV think Saddam Hussein was behind the Twin Towers attack. Man, have they got ways for getting half-truths out right away now, thanks to TV! I think TV is a calamity in a democracy.