"... it is true of the spirit as it is true of battles — only the winners are remembered."

"When a child first catches adults out — when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not have divine…"

"In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.…"

"There's nothing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of postage stamps. If you can't …"

"I am incomparably, incredibly, overwhelmingly glad to be home. I've never been so goddamn lonesome in my life."

"He said there couldn't be any more universal philosophers. The weight of knowledge is too great for one mind to absor…"

"Maybe the knowledge is too great and maybe men are growing too small. Maybe, kneeling down to atoms, they're becoming…"

"With a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration."

"Every man has a retirement picture in which he does those things he never had time to do — makes journeys, reads the …"

"A man's mind can't stay in time the way his body does."