Keep in mind, the news media are not independent; they are a sort of bulletin board and public relations firm for the ruling class-the people who run things. Those who decide what news you will or will not hear are paid by, and tolerated purely at the whim of, those who hold economic power. If the parent corporation doesn't want you to know something, it won't be on the news. Period. Or, at the very least, it will be slanted to suit them, and then rarely followed up.

When you look at the average American you realize there's nothing nature enjoys more than a good joke.

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.

I find it discouraging - and a bit depressing - when I notice the unequal treatment afforded by the media to UFO believers on the one hand, and on the other, to those who believe in an invisible supreme being who inhabits the sky.

Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain.

If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.