Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

I would have been dead if it weren't for that great gift to civilization from the Chemistry Department of Harvard, which was napalm, or sticky jellied gasoline.

People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it's a much better argument against foxholes.

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.

You realize, of course, that everything I say is horseshit.

We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. I used to think that science would save us, and science certainly tried. But we can't stand any more tremendous explosions, either for or against democracy.

I am the victim of a fortunate series of accidents.