Because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs. So people pretend there is drama where there is none.

The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.

It's a small world. When you put it in a cemetery, it is.

I think, therefore I am, therefore I am photographable.

George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.

It posed the question posed by all such stone piles.: how had puny men moved stones so big? And, like all such stone piles, it answered the question itself. Dumb terror had moved those stones so big

She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.