The military was all about hierarchies, who urinated highest on the hydrant

This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world.

Never a good sign, he thought, when the crows showed up.

Would somebody please tell him whose idea it had been to kill the entire state of Colorado?

She is so beautiful. Perfect. Mine.No. Not mine. I am hers.

Stretch an unwavering tenacity when facing bad to worse attitudes.

Esteem for the army - never in this country regarded, in the continental manner, as a popular expression of the national will - implies a kind of innocence.

Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.

I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.

In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer.

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

Apparently, they believe they're gods.

As long as you've got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something.