This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be.

George Bush and his gang imagine they are being political geniuses.

Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan.

If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?

I never knew a writer's wife who wasn't beautiful.

I was taught in the sixth grade that we had a standing army of just over a hundred thousand men and that the generals had nothing to say about what was done in Washington. I was taught to be proud of that and to pity Europe for having more than a million men under arms and spending all their money on airplanes and tanks. I simply never unlearned junior civics. I still believe in it. I got a very good grade.

God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train!