You have never seen greatness in a Presidency; I have. It was a rich kid who you would think had every reason to be a horse's ass - Franklin Roosevelt. He was humane and wise and resourceful. He was called a traitor to his class.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but the living room in your fortified compound.

Perhaps some people really are born unhappy. I surely hope not. Speaking for my sister and myself: We were born with the capacity and determination to be utterly happy all the time. Perhaps even in this we were freaks. Hi ho.

I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash.

His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.

...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.

The two prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.