I suppose if I have an epitaph it would be: "Curiosity Did Not Kill This Cat." I don't see retiring in the sense that we view it - I don't see how I could. Dying at the microphone or at the typewriter would not be bad.

Taking life seriously requires taking death seriously.

I am paraphrasing Einstein. I love to do that: nobody dares contradict me.

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

Don't be an examiner, be the interested inquirer.

When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.

I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.