Take it from somebody who has been around for a million years: When you get right down to it, food is practically the whole story every time.

What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do.

The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.

The government satirizes itself. All we can wish is that there will be a large number of Americans who will realize how dumb this all is, and how greedy and how vicious. Such an audience is dwindling all the time because of TV.

I taught writing for a while and whenever somebody would tell me they were going to write about their dad, I would tell them they might as well go write about killing puppies because neither story was going to work. It just doesn't work.

Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. The creator of the universe has been unknown to us so far. We serve as well as we can to the highest abstraction of which we have some understanding, which is our community.

I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.