I don't know what anybody else in the world would want to thank America for, but man, it [jazz] works. What I like about it - and what public health people ought to like about it - it's safe sex.

In an unmoored life like mine, sleep and hunger and work arrange themselves to suit themselves, without consulting me.

But anyway, it's obvious through human experience that extended families and tribes are terribly important. We can do without an extended family as human beings about as easily as we can do without vitamins or essential minerals.

The person who writes the bank's commercials is not the person who makes the loans.

Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.