People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.

My definition of a man's man is a man who knows gun safety, and we all did.

Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics.

Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided.

When we passed a Catholic church, I recalled, he said, "You think your dad's a good chemist? They're turning soda crackers into meat in there. Can your dad do that?

There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.

...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.