Now for good or ill, California is the place where trends tend to be set in Western civilization - if civilization indeed it is. California, for several generations now, has been the newest, biggest, most experimental place in the newest, biggest, most experimental part of liberal Western capitalism - which is itself a new experiment for mankind.

I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.

Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.

Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and the result is a cow ... It is impossible to be alive and safe.

I am a great admirer of women.

These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.

The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.