[People] want to feel superior, so they imagine we're Bible thumpers and uneducated and all that.

I can have oodles of charm when I want to.

After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin?

What's going to happen is, very soon, we're going to run out of petroleum, and everything depends on petroleum. And there go the school buses. There go the fire engines. The food trucks will come to a halt. This is the end of the world.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo.