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

The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.

We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You can't change history. History is happening to us now.

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.

I was taught in the sixth grade that we had a standing army of just over a hundred thousand men and that the generals had nothing to say about what was done in Washington. I was taught to be proud of that and to pity Europe for having more than a million men under arms and spending all their money on airplanes and tanks. I simply never unlearned junior civics. I still believe in it. I got a very good grade.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Oh, God — the lives people try to lead. Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in.