Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

It's a terrible waste to be happy and not notice it.

Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

One of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job.

Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics.

Only in books do we learn what’s really going on.

Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists themselves are behaving tribally.