The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.

I am an enemy of the State. But isn't everyone?

The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically.

In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.

I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.

How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.

Mayonnaise, like hollandaise, was invented by the French to cover up the flavor of spoiled flesh, stale vegetables, rotten fish. Beware the sauce! Where food comes beslobbered with an elegant slime you may well suspect the integrity of the basic ingredients.