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.

We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are.

That's the secret of how to enjoy writing and how to make yourself meet high standards," said Mrs. Berman. "You don't write for the whole world, and you don't write for ten people, or two. You write for just one person.

The person who writes the bank's commercials is not the person who makes the loans.

If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a human being. I would just as soon be a rattlesnake.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

The economy is a thoughtless weather system.