The constants all through the centuries will be the same; wine, women and song. Other than that, life will be very different technologically. In the year 3000 the universe will be expanding as it will forever, infinitely. We will probe outer space but never find life as evolutionized as ours. We were not created by a deity. We created the deity in OUR image. Life began on this planet when the first amoeba split. Mankind will still be seeking God, not accepting that God is a spirit; can't see it, touch it, only feel it. It's called LOVE.

All I ever learned at my mother's knee was what a bony knee looked like.

Isn't my fur stole pitiful? How unsuccessful can a girl look? People think I'm wearing anchovies. The worst of it is, I trapped these under my own sink.

... if they [your children] write their names in the dust on the furniture, don't let them put the year.

I remember once a vocational director said to Fang, "You must develop some mechanical skills - like getting out of bed."

My eight-year-old bought a bicycle with the money he saved by not smoking.

Religion is such a medieval idea. Don't get me started. I have thought about every facet of religion, and I can't buy any of it.