It is almost always a mistake to mention Abraham Lincoln. He always steals the show.

The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.

One of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job.

A man without a home can't be lost.

Aside from battles, the history of nations seemed to consist of nothing but powerless old poops like myself, heavily medicated and vaguely beloved in the long ago, coming to kiss the boots of young psychopaths.

Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?

How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that they make people contented during the period they are reading them and this is worth something is to take care of somebody for a couple of hours.