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Evolution is a mistake. Humans are a mistake. We've destroyed our planet.
Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.
Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.
The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers.
To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra
Never schedule a board meeting on Wednesday because it kills two weekends.
It's all like an ocean!" cried Dostoevski. I say it's all like cellophane.
It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.
In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Unannounced changes in life's itinerary are like dancing lessons from God.
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?
A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.
A chaplain's assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army.
My definition of a man's man is a man who knows gun safety, and we all did.
Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war.
Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the middle of a sentence. Circe Berman: Who isn't?.
The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
You can only be funny if you have matters of great importance on your mind.
What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?
If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.
There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.
If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off.
You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell.
Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
All these years, I've been opening the window and making love to the world.
If you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar.
Bad guys turned informer. Good guys didn't - no matter when, no matter what.
We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are.
Jokes have to be quite naked to be understood. They have to be quite simple.
I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).
Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.
There was a time when I could vote for economic justice, and I can't anymore.
Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.
All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.
What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity.
When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.
What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!
People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.
I'm mad about being old and I'm mad about being American. Apart from that, OK.
We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.
People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.
I know of very few people who are dreaming of a world for their grandchildren.
I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.
All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.
The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.
Question: What is the white stuff in bird poop? Answer: That is bird poop, too.