Rise above principal and do what's right.

From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.

mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.

There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.

Insanity is contagious.

I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.

Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.

Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.