I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.

Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.

Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'

I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if we can find one. But I tend to resist or evade any kind of authority based merely on the power to coerce. Government, for example. The Army tried to train us to salute the uniform, not the man. Failed. I will salute the man, maybe, if I think he's worthy of it, but I don't salute uniforms anymore.

The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.