The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.

I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well. And I don't use semicolons. It's hard to read anyway, especially for high school kids. Also, I avoid irony, too. I don't like people saying one thing and meaning the other.

Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side.

Maybe they invited me because they know I have a tuxedo

I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares about how we are or what we do. ... Religious skeptics often become very bitter towards the end, as did Mark Twain. ... I know why I will become bitter. I will finally realize that I have had it right all along: that I will not see God, that there is no heaven or Judgement Day.

Jack Benny, Fred Allen. Their jokes were wonderful. It takes skill to be funny. The timing of Jack Benny was so fine. It is a form of genius for which we should be grateful.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.