The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

Indian enterprises seemed to work so well they produced disasters; success made them burst at the seams and the disruption of unprecedented orders led to shortages and finally failure.

People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books.

The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze River, that equals the Nile. We have the greatest cities in the world - among the greatest cities in the world. We have a large population. We have challenges. We have an indigenous population.

They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.

And that is all anyone can do, try to be honest about what he feels, what he's seen or thinks he's seen.