He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.' 'All knew was that I didn't want my daughter or anybody's child to see a message that negative every time she comes into the library,' he said. 'And then I found out it was you who was responsible for it.' 'What's so negative about it?' I said. 'What could be a more negative word than "futility"?' he said. '"Ignorance,"' I said.

That was what made them so hilarious and unafraid. That was the strength of the Nazis. [...] They understood God better than anyone. They knew how to make Him stay away.

Because of the movies nobody will believe that it was babies who fought the war.

What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?

Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.

We were all gun nuts and they were called varmints, crows were, because they ate grain and so did we.

Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.