And what gift of America to the rest of the world is actually most appreciated by the rest of the world? It is African American jazz and its offshoots. What is my definition of jazz? Safe sex of the highest order.

George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.

Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so.

Ideas on earth were badges of friendship or enimity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enimity.

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.

Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been.

The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.