This is my principal objection to life, I think: It is too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.

Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking …

Many people found our house spooky, and the attic in fact as full of evil when I was born. It housed a collection of more than three hundred antique and modern…

[Gay Talese's Thy Neighbor's Wife] is for me a secretly deep history of a generation of middle-class American males, my own, which was taught by parents and at…

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

It was close; but that's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

Routine is the death to heroism.