I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.

Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.

The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.

Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state. But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take up more space on a map than either.

Christian theology: nothing so grotesque could possibly be true.

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

Those who dream of the joys of living in a space colony should live in a space colony.