History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders from a superior authority.

You know what truth is? [...] It's some crazy thing my neighbor believes. If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me, and I say, "Yeah, yeah - ain't it the truth?

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?

Be fruitful, and multiply.

Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: "Just say no.

I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist worth a damn in this country was terribly opposed to that war, finally, when it became evident what a fiasco and meaningless butchery it was.