The complicated futility of ignorance.

What geography can give all Middle Westerners, along with the fresh water and topsoil, if they let it, is awe for an Edenic continent stretching forever in all directions. Makes you religious. Takes your breath away.

Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.

I can have oodles of charm when I want to.

Make love when you can. It's good for you.

Just because something feels better than anything else, that doesn't mean it's good for you.

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.