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.

Call it 'nationalism' when you affix a flag to your car, and leave the word 'patriotism' for your efforts to make this country a kinder, more egalitarian place, and one that is less dangerous to the rest of the world.

It's a glorious universe the positive thinkers have come up with, a vast, shimmering aurora borealis in which desires mingle freely with their realizations. ... Dreams go out and fulfill themselves; wishes need only to be articulated.

When you watch television, you never see people watching television. We love television because it brings us a world in which television does not exist.

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

the seeker who embraces positive theology finds ... that you can have all that stuff in the mall, as well as the beautiful house and car, if only you believe that you can. But ... if you don't have all that you want, if you feel sick, discouraged, or defeated, you have only yourself to blame. Positive theology ratifies and completes a world without beauty, transcendence, or mercy.

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.