He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

I've written about Powers Hapgood. He was a Harvard graduate, son of a wealthy family who owned a cannery out there. After leaving Harvard, he went to work in coal mines and then was a CIO executive when I met him there, in Indianapolis.

Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today.

It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.

Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being married forever to somebody nobody knows or cares about.

If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise.

My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now.