History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage some day that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil.

How much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of Creation? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatological mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements?

I never even realized I was Jewish until I was practically grown up. Or rather, I used to feel that everybody in the world was Jewish, which amounts to the same thing.

Rise above principal and do what's right.

There are yawning gulfs into which large chunks of me have fallen. I do not always know where I am at present.

That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.

They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.