When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the States.

If you want truth you should begin by giving it.

After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.

If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.

I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn't exist without imagination. And so anything that strengthens imagination, and reading certainly does that, can help us for the rest of our lives.

There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.