God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train!

Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't compete successfully with poets.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.

I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical, write about at least one person to whom the audience is bound to feel inferior, and no fair having human problems solved by dumb luck or heavenly intervention.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God.