Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.

Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I was nine years old. I had a brother and a sister, a cat and a dog, and a mother and a father and uncles and aunts. And there's no way I can get there again.

He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.

I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.

Beware of "grandfalloons" and "foma". A "grandfalloon" is a proud and meaningless association of human beings. "Foma" are harmless truths intended to comfort simple souls.