It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.

The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.

If you make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical joke? All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.

Bill Gates says, 'Wait till you can see what your computer can become.' But it’s you who should be doing the becoming. What you can become is the miracle you were born to work-not the damn fool computer.

All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.

Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.

There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.