We used to have superb public schools. I guess we don't anymore, but, boy, the public schools were really something and I am a product of those in Indianapolis.

If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in heaven now.' That's my favorite joke.

Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.

1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

But he is tired. He puts the pistol to his head again. He says, “I never asked to be born in the first place.

My special situation was that I was the son and grandson of architects. And so I saw building. We were building the city, and that was exciting.