We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are.

Incidentally, I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the great science fiction writer and biochemist Dr. Isaac Asimov. John Updike, who is religious, says I talk more about God than any seminarian. Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.

They tell him that there is no why, since the moment simply is and since all of them are trapped in the moment, like bugs in amber.

There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for any appreciable length of time.

[People] want to feel superior, so they imagine we're Bible thumpers and uneducated and all that.

One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.

If you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar.