War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun.

One thing in the Middlewest: If you're in my business you're aware of the low opinion both coasts have of the midlands. And that is quite mistaken. New York would be a Kokomo if it weren't for Middlewesterners coming there.

But anyway, it's obvious through human experience that extended families and tribes are terribly important. We can do without an extended family as human beings about as easily as we can do without vitamins or essential minerals.

That specific remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues.

To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.

Oh, God — the lives people try to lead. Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in.