After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in 1933, this was seen as such an emergency that human rights had to be suspended. The attack on the World Trade Towers has allowed Bush and his gang to do anything. What are we to do now? I say when there's a code red, we should all run around like chickens with our heads cut off. I don't feel that we are in any great danger.

The world is too serious. To get mad at a work of art-because maybe somebody, somewhere is blowing his stack over what I've done-is like getting mad at a hot fudge sundae.

Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

The Earthlings behaved at all times as though there were a big eye in the sky—as though that big eye were ravenous for entertainment.

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.

Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: "Just say no.