What is my definition of jazz? "Safe sex of the highest order."

The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.

He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way.

bergeron's epitaph for the planet, i remember, which he said should be carved in big letters in a wall of the grand canyon for the flying-saucer people to find was this: WE COULD HAVE SAVED IT, BUT WE WERE TOO DOGGONE CHEAP. only he didn't say "doggone.

I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.

Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue, the monograph went on. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact how hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves.

I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure beat dying for absolutely nothing in the Viet Nam War.