The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction.

Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.

Reality is the only obstacle to happiness.

I am sitting here 93 million miles from the sun on a rounded rock which is spinning at the rate of 1000 miles an hour... and my head pointing down into space with nothing between me and infinity but something called gravity which I can't even understand, and which you can't even buy any place so as to have some stored away for a gravityless day.

Industrial-strength foolishness sets in-in males, at least-at about the age of 18. This is why the military prefers males in the 18-to-25-year-old range when there's combat to be done.

When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.

A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.