The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe.

Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.

Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.

Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only a hobby. Get out there and enjoy the world, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, husbands wives; climb mountains, run rivers, get drunk, do whatever you want to do while you can, before it's too late.

Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.

By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.

Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.