The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.

Practical! On Wednesday afternoons I could be practically anything. What's up?

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have.

It inspired all sorts of whims and fancies that I ultimately wove into a fairy tale complete with muse, the earth, the moon, some famous inventors, a dog and a rabbit.

He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.

Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center.