In this world, you get what you pay for.

You are being suffocated by tradition... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time, and make it a work of art'? Your life isn't a work of art ---it's a thirdhand Victorian whatnot shelf, complete with someone else's collection of seashells and hand-carved elephants.

Science is magic that works.

Truth can be really powerful stuff if you're not expecting it.

Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been.

George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.

There's almost nothing like native Midwesterner anywhere else in the world, except in Asia. They're miracles all in themselves.