Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world.

if you search the bible, you will find no reference to birth control or gay marriage, and you will not find a word, strangely, about stem cell research. I have searched.

The secret of the truly successful ... is that they learned early in life how not to be busy.

The Republican Party: a few million gun-toting, Armageddon-ready Baptists.

In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.