I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.

You know who was a hero? Franklin Roosevelt.

Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.

The economy is a thoughtless weather system.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

Socialism" is no more an evil word than "Christianity." Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity prescribed the Spanish Inquisition. Christianity and socialism alike, in fact, prescribe a society dedicated to the proposition that all men, women, and children are created equal and shall not starve.