Traditional American values: Genocide, aggression, conformity, emotional repression, hypocrisy, and the worship of comfort and consumer goods.

Sometimes, when I was really loaded, I'd sit on the floor and sort out every nut and bolt in the house. It was just sheer insanity. And often there'd be speed in the cut, so I was a speed freak, too.

I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. But I understand the word "cynic" has more than one meaning, and I see how I could be seen as cynical. "George, you're cynical." Well, you know, they say if you scratch a cynic you find a disappointed idealist. And perhaps the flame still flickers a little, you know?

We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket.

Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh..apologiz e..let go of what you can't change.

And, of course, the funniest food of all, kumquats.

When you think about it, 12:15 P.M. is actually 11:75 A.M.