I can see where influential people would like Maharishi better than Jesus. My God, if the Beatles and Mia Farrow went to Jesus, He'd tell them to give all their money away.

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.

Well, it's practically over, thank God - I'm 83, there won't be that much more of it to put up with I don't think!

Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.

It's an astonishing skill that people can read, and read well. Very few people can read well. For instance, I have to be very careful with irony, saying something while meaning the exact opposite.

For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms.

The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.