We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. I used to think that science would save us, and science certainly tried. But we can't stand any more tremendous explosions, either for or against democracy.

You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.

It's incumbent on the President to entertain. Clinton did a better job of it - and was forgiven for the scandals, incidentally. Bush is entertaining us with what I call the Republican Super Bowl, which is played by the lower classes using live ammunition.

It's a terrible waste to be happy and not notice it.

Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.