It is time for me to be dead for a little while - and then live again.

How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will still be extremely useful in unjust wars. We are sick about that. We did the best we could.

...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.

Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

Why throw money at problems? That is what money is for. Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful.

Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?