Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

People stopped calling themselves Freethinkers because it was so specifically German and anything German was terribly unpopular because of the two world wars. My family became Unitarians instead - it's the same sort of thing.

On the day they dropped the bomb Frank had a tablespoon and a Mason jar. What he was doing was spooning different kinds of bugs into the jar and making them fight....I can remember other bug fights we staged later on...They won't fight unless you keep shaking the jar.

There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.

And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.

Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.

A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.