A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible.

During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Shortridge High School was an elitist high school. In a way it was a scandal because you could go there no matter where you lived, if you could get there. It was for over-achievers. It was for people who were going to college. So we were very special and we were hated for being ritzy.

In those days great teachers at Shortridge [High School] were celebrities. I would look up to them.

The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist.

Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side.