If you don't kick things around with people, you are out of it. Nobody, I always say, can be anybody without somebody being around.

Is the very mechanism for the universe to come into being meaningless or unworkable or both unless the universe is guaranteed to produce life, consciousness and observership somewhere and for some little time in its history-to-be?

The laws of physics must provide a mechanism for the universe to come into being.

The most cost-effective move we could make in defense spending would be to shift the focus of CIA operations, giving this agency the directive to make trouble for the Soviet Union.

If you don't kick things around with people, you are out of it. Nobody, I always say, can be anybody without somebody being around.

I would like to offer a candidate to be added to the venerable list of English collective nouns: a scum of politicians.

Congress is a Mafia running a protection racket.. .