I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?

I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.

I've been through the whole western world, and it seems to me that there's more retail floor space devoted to the sale of books than food! There's more retail floor space devoted to the sale of books than there's been in the entire history of humanity! It's grotesque!

People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary.

The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.

We live in an age of seriously crap mass clothing. They've made a science of it.