I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In the year 2000, they prayed, "Please God, don't let me look old." Sexiness was equated with youth, and youth ruled. The most widespread age-related disease was not senility but juvenility.

I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age.

You're either on the bus or off the bus.

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later.

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.