People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened one are right to be.

It pains me even now, even a million years later, to write about such human misbehaviour. A million years later, I feel like apologizing for the human race. That’s all I can say.

I'm odd, I know,' he said. 'It's fear of myself that's made me odd.

It is time for me to be dead for a little while - and then live again.

All the new technology seems redundant to me. I was quite happy with the United States mail service. And, I don't even have an answering machine, for God's sake.

Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.

Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.