It is ironic that a nation that has never experienced a coup d'etat should be so obsessed with the idea of conspiracy.

For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? To the designer of the camera? to the finger on the button? to the law of averages?

I think the Chinese will say the hell with you and pull their money out of the United States. That's the end of our wars.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

I believe it's my pastoral duty to convert friends to atheism.

It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy's edge. But in the process, we have lost the human element; not to mention the high hope of those quaint days when flight would create one world. Instead of one world, we have star wars, and a future in which dumb dented human toys will drift mindlessly about the cosmos long after our small planet's dead.

I'm a born - again atheist.