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

Don't think of death as an ending. Think of it as a really effective way of cutting down your expenses.

I was raised in a religious home. It was unreasonable enforced religion that turned me off it. It was a joyless, unpleasant, stupid, barbaric thing when I was a child and I've never gotten over that feeling. If you're talking about religion it's one thing; I don't hold Jewish religion with any more seriousness than I would any other.

In perpetrating a revolution, there are two requirements: someone or something to revolt against and someone to actually show up and do the revolting. Dress is usually casual and both parties may be flexible about time and place, but if either faction fails to attend, the whole enterprise is likely to come off badly.

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

Do I believe in God? I did until Mother's accident. She fell on some meat loaf and it penetrated her spleen.

There is no justice, there is no rational structure to it [life]. That is just the way it is, and each person figures out some way to cope.