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

I love cell phones. I see people so happy and proud, walking around. Gesturing, you know. I'm like Karl Marx, I'm up for anything that makes people happy.

Thanks to their decreased brainpower, people aren't diverted from the main business of life by the hobgoblins of opinion anymore.

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

1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.

The only proof he needed for the existance of God was music.

I never knew a writer's wife who wasn't beautiful.