It is safest to shut up and pay, which is what I shall eventually do, though I shall hate having to sell the children.

It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration.

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

Research is a scientific activity dedicated to discovering what makes grass green.

After that [father's death] I never cried with any real conviction, nor expected much of anyone's God except indifference, nor loved deeply without fear that it would cost me dearly in pain. At the age of five I had become a skeptic and began to sense that any happiness that came my way might be the prelude to some grim cosmic joke.

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the printing press, which changed the human condition for centuries afterward.