Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative..

George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography..

We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are..

As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to colli….

Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful..

But anyway, it's obvious through human experience that extended families and tribes are terribly important. We can do without an extended family as h….

Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders a….

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead..

The paintings by dead men who were poor most of their lives are the most valuable pieces in my collection. And if an artist wants to really jack up t….

You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too..

Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performer….

I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical, write about….

I think, therefore I am, therefore I am photographable..

Her face ... was a one-of-a-kind, a surprising variation on a familiar theme - a variation that made observers think, Yes - that would be another ver….

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life..

War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and t….

So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The A….

The city was blacked out because bombers might come, so Billy didn't get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful things a city can do when the sun….

The trouble with God isn't that He so seldom makes Himself known to us... He's holding you and me and everybody else by the scruff of the neck practi….

But I replied that what made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could be anywhere. By saints I meant ….

You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals..