I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was laughter. God knows, that's the soul seeking some relief.

You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals.

What can any one person do?' he said. 'Each person does a little something,' I said, 'and there you are.

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a human being. I would just as soon be a rattlesnake.

Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school.

I was taught in the sixth grade that we had a standing army of just over a hundred thousand men and that the generals had nothing to say about what was done in Washington. I was taught to be proud of that and to pity Europe for having more than a million men under arms and spending all their money on airplanes and tanks. I simply never unlearned junior civics. I still believe in it. I got a very good grade.