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" It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead. "

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" A chaplain's assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army. "

" When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been in really ghastly taste. I don't think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them. "

" One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand. "

" Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them. "

" We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. "

" Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. "

" I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours. "

" I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me. "

" Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time? "

" I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers. "

" When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed. "

" About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm. "

" Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John. "

" I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that. "

" If you appear in the 'Atlantic' or 'Harper's' or the 'New Yorker,' by God, you must be a writer, because everybody says so. "

" I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us. "

" I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different. "

" One of the things that I tell beginning writers is this: If you describe a landscape, or a cityscape, or a seascape, always be sure to put a human figure somewhere in the scene. Why? Because readers are human beings, mostly interested in human beings. People are humanists. Most of them are humanists, that is. "

" Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do. "

" It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either. "

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" It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say absolutely anything without fear of punishment. "

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" People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. "