Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?

The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.

I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.

It's all like an ocean!" cried Dostoevski. I say it's all like cellophane.

Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.

And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'.

No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.