And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.

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.

Well, it's an ancestral tribe. These were immigrants from north of Germany who came here about the time of the Civil War, but anyway, these people called themselves free thinkers. They were impressed, incidentally, by Darwin. They're called Humanists now; people who aren't so sure that the Bible is the Word of God.

In 1844, Karl Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." He said this at a time when opium and opium derivatives were the only painkillers. And he said it helped a little. He might as well have said, "Religion is the aspirin of the people."

It's a small world. When you put it in a cemetery, it is.

I am the victim of a fortunate series of accidents.

To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra