Montana was naked, and so was Billy, of course. He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who'll get one.

In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine.

I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.

How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue, the monograph went on. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact how hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves.

One thing I found out was that we need extended families. We need gangs. And, of course, if they're tribes and clans and so forth have been dispersed by the industrial revolution by people looking for work wherever they can find it. And a nuclear family, a man, a woman and kids and a dog and cat is no survival scheme at all. Horribly vulnerable.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.