Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.

I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer." "What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?

And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

Do I resent rich people? No. The best or worst I can do is notice them. I agree with the great Socialist writer George Orwell, who felt that rich people were poor people with money.

Freud said he didn't know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to.

I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares how we are or what we do.