The hopes and fears of all our years are here with us tonight.

What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!

Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war.

It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken a color photograph of God Almighty—and sold it to Popular Mechanics magazine. Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.