But I have to say this in defense of humankind: In no matter what era in history, including the Garden of Eden, everybody just got here. And, except for the Garden of Eden, there were already all these games going on that could make you act crazy, even if you weren't crazy to begin with. Some of the crazymaking games going on today are love and hate, liberalism and conservatism, automobiles and credit cards, golf, and girls' basketball.

I'm odd, I know,' he said. 'It's fear of myself that's made me odd.

Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.

I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

That specific remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues.

Jokes have to be quite naked to be understood. They have to be quite simple.