I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.

When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.

During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.

What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!

Powers Hapgood had just come from court because there was some kind of dust-up on a picket line. The judge was so curious about him - coming from a rich family - why he would choose to live as he had. I guess you know what his answer was ..."The Sermon on the Mount, sir." That's important.

Each one of us has to be what he or she is.