I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any 'Good Old Days,' there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, 'Don't look at me. I just got here myself.'

A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.

Thanks to their decreased brainpower, people aren't diverted from the main business of life by the hobgoblins of opinion anymore.

I love you, because the love you gave me was the only love I've ever had, the only love I ever will have

I now believe that the only way in which Americans can rise above their ordinariness, can mature sufficiently to rescue themselves and to help rescue their planet, is through enthusiastic intimacy with works of their own imagination.

Truth can be really powerful stuff if you're not expecting it.

We were German-Americans in a British colony, so we were outsiders.