... uncritical love is the only real treasure.

Well, we are terribly divided politically, yes, and, you know, I don't mean to intimidate you and your listeners but I have a master's degree in anthropology from the University of Chicago.

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

If you can do no good, at least do no harm.

[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.

For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms.

If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.