My special situation was that I was the son and grandson of architects. And so I saw building. We were building the city, and that was exciting.

The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.

If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness.

My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went back to Germany.

Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.

There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.

Thanks to their decreased brainpower, people aren't diverted from the main business of life by the hobgoblins of opinion anymore.