While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people they finally dropped it from judo.

There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: 'What's your sign?' Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.

Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.

I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.

You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.

The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that's long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.

All three of my parents - I also had a stepmother - were teachers, and my dad taught high school, and as he always reminded me when I was going to spend some money on something, 'Your mother and I, in the Depression, had to decide whether to spend a dime on a loaf of bread or if we could go to a movie with it.'