Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes.

History! Read it and weep!

You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

It was headquartered in Michigan City, a long way off. I never saw Ku Klux Klan march.

There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.

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.