The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.

Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die.

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.

What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean rock and roll. I mean the never-the-same-twice music the American black people gave the world.

Each one of us has to be what he or she is.