The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.

This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be.

All this happened, more or less.

They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.

I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.

I was taught in the sixth grade that we had a standing army of just over a hundred thousand men and that the generals had nothing to say about what was done in Washington. I was taught to be proud of that and to pity Europe for having more than a million men under arms and spending all their money on airplanes and tanks. I simply never unlearned junior civics. I still believe in it. I got a very good grade.

All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.