Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.

I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still. Another thing they taught was that no one was ridiculous or bad or disgusting. Shortly before my father died, he said to me, ‘You know – you never wrote a story with a villain in it.’ I told him that was one of the things I learned in college after the war.

It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever.

You are reading a bold and universal headline which says ,’I am here, I am here, I am here.

Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting.

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