The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today. The newspapers were full of stories of worker layoffs and farm foreclosures and bank failures, just as they are today. All that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a Great Depression. We may even be hiding a Third World War.

A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.

Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies.

All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.

We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.

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

It's incumbent on the President to entertain. Clinton did a better job of it - and was forgiven for the scandals, incidentally. Bush is entertaining us with what I call the Republican Super Bowl, which is played by the lower classes using live ammunition.