Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence.

I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed up to hit a pedestrian or, or course, stop to kick a pedestrian who has already been hit. From which it followed, of course, that one would never ever -- on pain of deletion from dozens of Christmas card lists across the country -- vote Republican.

Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.

we are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system.

There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.

When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.