Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

What memories for mud to have.

If I were a physics teacher or a science teacher, it'd be on my mind all the time as how the hell we really got this way. It's a perfectly natural human thought and, okay, if you go into the science class you can't think this. Well, alright, as soon as you leave you can start thinking about it again without giving aid and comfort to the lunatic fringe of the Christian religion.

The trouble with being a secular humanist is that we don't have a congregation. We don't meet so it's a very flimsy tribe, but there's a wonderful quotation from Nietzsche. Nietzsche said, Only a person of deep faith can afford the luxury of skepticism. Something perfectly is going on. I do not doubt it, but the explanations I hear do not satisfy me.

If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?

There's almost nothing like native Midwesterner anywhere else in the world, except in Asia. They're miracles all in themselves.

You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away.