I said I wasn't interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn't really interested either. As things turned out, we both overestimated our apathies, but not that much.

I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better.

We were into the Speedway. We'd take a train out to the Speedway where farmers had flatbed trucks with bleachers on them. They'd park in the infield and we'd sit on those. Our heroes weren't the drivers, they were the pit crews. That's because we were local, and we knew what was going on.

I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked him if he'd been drunk the night before, he would always answer offhandedly, 'Oh, I imagine.' I've always liked that answer. It acknowledges life as a dream.

The system promotes to the top those who don't care about the planet.

Jokes have to be quite naked to be understood. They have to be quite simple.