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.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but the living room in your fortified compound.

Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well. And I don't use semicolons. It's hard to read anyway, especially for high school kids. Also, I avoid irony, too. I don't like people saying one thing and meaning the other.

That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.

That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes.

The Earthlings behaved at all times as though there were a big eye in the sky—as though that big eye were ravenous for entertainment.