So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget.

I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that.

We are here for no purpose, unless we can invent one.

Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe.

In this world, you get what you pay for.

A committee of three can accomplish much if two don't show up.

there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation swamped by unchecked plagues and superstition and illiteracy and hypnotic tv, with virtually no health services for the poor. where to go? what to do?