Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not need to scream.

The movie "Ed Wood," about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for "Stargate."

By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.

In these days of high-tech video games, it's remarkable that kids once got incredibly thrilled while pushing little metal racing cars around a cardboard track: The toy car was yours, and you invested it with importance and enhanced it with fantasy and pitied it because it was small, like you were. Such games were weapons against the ennui of endless Saturdays.

I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state.

Dogs remember every favor you ever do for them and store those events in a memory bank titled Why My Human Is A God.

What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable.