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

He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.

I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.

If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright seventh graders who would not be welcome in Washington D.C.

... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet.

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

Is there nothing I have done which will outlive me, other than the opprobrium of my first wife and sons and grandchildren? Do I care? Doesn't everybody? Poor me. Poor practically everybody, with so little durable good to leave behind!