Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

American Rifleman and Field & Stream had ads for "varmint guns." Another varmint was a ground hog because a horse would be going along and he'd stick his foot in a ground hog hole and break his leg. So we were trying to prevent that, too. But we finally scared ourselves. We didn't realize we were nuts.

Because of the movies nobody will believe that it was babies who fought the war.

Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies - "God damn it, you've got to be kind."

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.

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.