Visiting Future World is like opening a Chinese fortune cookie to read, "Soon you'll be finished with dinner."

Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?

Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations.

It is very hard now to shock people into thinking about government regulation and the extent of government involvement in life.

You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.

There is that kind of happiness. There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have.

This is the most elaborate and luxurious method of convincing others that you can cook. Take everybody out on your yacht until they're green in the face. Then you can rave for weeks about your sauce marinara and no one will gainsay you.