He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way.

All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.

I'm odd, I know,' he said. 'It's fear of myself that's made me odd.

Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God.

People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened one are right to be.

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.

The most racist, nastiest act by America, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have had some military significance. But Nagasaki was purely blowing away yellow men, women, and children. I'm glad I'm not a scientist because I'd feel so guilty now.