Never trust a survivor until you know how they survived.

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.

I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d'etat imaginable.

A society is only as healthy as its ideas are humane.

That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.

Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it.