The Earthlings behaved at all times as though there were a big eye in the sky—as though that big eye were ravenous for entertainment.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of proportion with one another, are out of proportion with life as it really is outside my head.

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.

Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.

Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.