See the cat? See the cradle?

Much of the blame is the malarkey that artists have created to glorify war, which as we all know, is nonsense, and a good deal worse than that — romantic pictures of battle, and of the dead and men in uniform and all that. And I did not want to have that story told again.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting.

I'm mad about being old and I'm mad about being American. Apart from that, OK.

The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.

No moral value is greater than humanity.

I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares about how we are or what we do. ... Religious skeptics often become very bitter towards the end, as did Mark Twain. ... I know why I will become bitter. I will finally realize that I have had it right all along: that I will not see God, that there is no heaven or Judgement Day.