F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.

Some people say Hawaii is spoiled, but I don't think so. It's modern. It's a part of today's world.

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.