Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad.

That's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.

They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind.

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it.

When I sit down to the feast of life ... I'm so busy planning on how to pick up the check, and wondering what the other people think of me for paying it, and wondering if I have enough money in my pocket to pay the bill, that I don't get around to eating.

For someone to be taken seriously it was valuable to have the appearance of someone who deserved to be taken seriously.