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

It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye.

What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.

The trouble with being a secular humanist is that we don't have a congregation. We don't meet so it's a very flimsy tribe, but there's a wonderful quotation from Nietzsche. Nietzsche said, Only a person of deep faith can afford the luxury of skepticism. Something perfectly is going on. I do not doubt it, but the explanations I hear do not satisfy me.

Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.

It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.

I am better now. Word of honour: I am better now.