A society is only as healthy as its ideas are humane.

I wanted all things to seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, instead of tense. And I made up lies, so they all fit nice, and I made this sad world a paradise

Jack Benny, Fred Allen. Their jokes were wonderful. It takes skill to be funny. The timing of Jack Benny was so fine. It is a form of genius for which we should be grateful.

I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.

Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.

People who were so good. There were angels.

love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a storm with silken reins