No matter how wonderful a sentence is, if it doesn't add new and useful information, it should be removed.

I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.

The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

Oh, God — the lives people try to lead. Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in.

War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun.

Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school.

In the water I am beautiful.