Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.

No matter how wonderful a sentence is, if it doesn't add new and useful information, it should be removed.

If I wrote something that hadn't really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That's fraud!

I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still.

Then the lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heaven; and He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. So it goes. Those were vile people in both those cities, as is well known. The world was better off without them. And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned to a pillar of salt.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.