Teenagers Today Are More Free To Be

It Was Hard To Remember In The Heavy And Sensual Clarity Of These Mornings; I Forgot Whom I Hated And Who Hated Me. I Wanted To Break Out Crying From Stabs Of Hopeless Joy, Or Intolerable Promise, Or Because These Mornings Were Too Full Of Beauty For Me, Because I Knew Of Too Much Hate To Be Contained In A World Like This.

There Are Special, Strange Gifted People In The World And They Have To Be Treated With Understanding

Your War Memories Will Be With You Forever, You'll Be Asked About Them Thousands Of Times After The War Is Over. People Will Get Their Respect For You From That-partly From That, Don't Get Me Wrong-but If You Can Say That You Were Up Front Where There Was Some Real Shooting Going On, Then That Will Mean A Whole Lot To You In Years To Come.

Nothing Endures. Not A Tree. Not Love. Not Even Death By Violence.

Never Say You Are Five Feet Nine When You Are Five Feet Eight And A Half" Was The First One I Encountered. Another Was, "always Say Some Prayers At Night Because It Might Turn Out That There Is A God.