I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.

I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very dangerous.

Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.

We're living on the Planet of the Apes. Is that funny or serious?

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

help conquer the IQ shortage worry less and think more

[My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote my first historical novel---back in 1980, before I was online---I used them often as a research tool. For instance, I learned that the Bastille was either 90 feet high or 100 feet or 120 feet. This led me to formulate Wilson's 22nd Law: 'Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.'