Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did - it was stylish to hate him.

My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now.

It is almost always a mistake to mention Abraham Lincoln. He always steals the show.

Live while you live, when you're dead you're dead.

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.

Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.

Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: "Make me young, make me young, make me young!