Most things in this world don´t work, aspirin do.

There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a more agreeable life.

I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why, and where evolution is headed. That's why we've got giraffes and hippopotami and the clap.

I went to high school in Indianapolis I learned how to walk around looking tough because everybody had to do that. I go out there occasionally and they're still doing it, walking around looking very tough because something might happen.

We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.

There is no peace, I'm sorry to say. We find it. We lose it. We find it again. We lose it again.

Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next -- and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis -- at any time of night or day.