I begin the chapter and book on very elementary reasoning and a simple description: this description of relationships developed naturally and socially

Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city.""There are no limits in war, " Volger said, still staring out the window.

Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting them on the table in the guise of candles?

I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I've lived here for sixteen years.

Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.

Finding peace within, to find peace all throughout

Whatever we'll be forced to do later, we should be doing now.

I like to invent the dialogue that I want to have heard.

The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.

A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one.