What's the point of being alive," she said, "if you're not going to communicate?.

This had been going on at Shortridge since 1906. My parents had also worked on the Shortridge Daily Echo. The way it came into being was that when th….

Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so..

Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That wo….

The only proof he needed for the existance of God was music..

Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia..

The First Amendment reads more like a dream than a law, and no other nation, so far as I know, has been crazy enough to include such a dream among it….

Luck is not the hand of God.... Luck is the way the wind swirls and the dust settles eons after God has passed by..

Unhappy failures need not apply..

I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian].

It is harder to be unhappy when you are eating..

Perhaps some people really are born unhappy. I surely hope not. Speaking for my sister and myself: We were born with the capacity and determination t….

My ancient history teacher, Millie Lloyd, should have worn a medal for her performance at the battle of Thermopylae. She was excited and we were exci….

People would be surprised if they knew how much in this world was due to prayers..

Until you die .. it's all life..

The umpire had comical news. The congregation had been theoretically spotted from the air by a theoretical enemy. They were all theoretically dead no….

Oh, a lion hunter in the jungle dark, And a sleeping drunkard up in central park, and a Chinese dentist and a British queen All fit together in the s….

History! Read it and weep!.

On Tralfamadore, says Billy Pilgrim, there isn't much interest in Jesus Christ. The Earthling figure who is most engaging to the Tralfamadorian mind,….

How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx said such a supposedly evil thi….

Jack Benny, Fred Allen. Their jokes were wonderful. It takes skill to be funny. The timing of Jack Benny was so fine. It is a form of genius for whic….