High School is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of. |
History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. |
How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive. |
Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia. |
I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares how we are or what we do |
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours. |
I suggest that you work for a socialist form of government. Free Enterprise is much too hard on the old and the sick and the shy and the poor and the stupid, and on the people nobody likes. They just can't cut the mustard under Free Enterprise. They lack that certain something that Nelson Rockefeller, for instance, so abundantly has. |
I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different. |
I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different. |
I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain wrote in 1898, long before the First World War (1914-1918). In the title story he proves to his own grim satisfaction, and to mine as well, that Satan and not God created the planet earth and "the damned human race." If you doubt that, read your morning paper. Never mind what paper. Never mind the date. |
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center. |
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival. |
I'd rather have written 'Cheers' than anything I've written. |
I'm wild again, beguiled again, a wimpering, simpering child I am. |
If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy. |