There is no peace, I'm sorry to say. We find it. We lose it. We find it again. We lose it again.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

The government satirizes itself. All we can wish is that there will be a large number of Americans who will realize how dumb this all is, and how greedy and how vicious. Such an audience is dwindling all the time because of TV.

That's the point. Every kind of animal thinks its own kind of animal is wonderful. So people getting married think they're wonderful, and that they're going to have a baby-- that's wonderful, when actually they're as ugly as rhinoceroses. Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it would hurt so much.

Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists themselves are behaving tribally.

You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.

In an unmoored life like mine, sleep and hunger and work arrange themselves to suit themselves, without consulting me.