How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.

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.

'Curiosity never killed this cat’ — that’s what I’d like as my epitaph.

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

The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.

More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication.

Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of four or five million. That means it was a best seller for years. People were thoughtful then. Hope is one thing. But you need to have hope with thought.