I'm mad about being old and I'm mad about being American. Apart from that, OK.

Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: "Just say no.

Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a dictionary, isn't that the only reason they find writing hard: they don't know or care about anything?

The system promotes to the top those who don't care about the planet.

And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.

There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.

Two radical ideas have been introduced into human thought. One of them is that energy and matter are pretty much the same sort of stuff. That's Einstein. The other is that revenge is a bad idea. Revenge is an enormously popular idea but, of course, Jesus came along with the radical idea of forgiveness. If you're insulted, you have to square accounts. So this invention by Jesus is as radical as Einstein's.