I think there is too much wrong with the world to ever get too relaxed and happy. The more natural state, and the better one, I think, is one of some anxiety and tension over man's plight in this mysterious universe.

I'm a teleological, existential agnostic.

I've often felt that life is a hard deal and it's unrelentingly tragic and an uphill fight.

Doing abominations is against the law, particularly if the abominations are done while wearing a lobster bib.

You mellow too much you ripen and rot.

With me; it's just a genetic dissatisfaction with everything.

In 1940 I was just turning 5 years old and being taken to the movies. For those of us who were not old enough to understand the horror of war it was a very romantic era because these guys were kissing their wives and girlfriends goodbye and going off to fight and become heroes.