If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me

I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.

Reading, not just an escape, but an exercise in living.

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

One, if one is sensible, blames government, not the servers of government, not those entangled in their governments.