Tis better to have love and lust Than to let our apparatus rust.

I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair.

People like to feel entitled, whether they're actually entitled or not.

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

Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.

We are America's Great Lakes people, her freshwater people, not an oceanic but a continental people. Whenever I swim in an ocean, I feel as though I am swimming in chicken soup.

What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.