Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.

The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.

Failures are the stairs we climb to reach success.

Ah. And then you kill him.""No, " Arkwright replied patiently. "We are British. We avoid murder if we can help it.{...}

Every thought we think is creating our future.

If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us.

By investigating God's majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.

I fought for peace in the fifties.

So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great.

I have been writing now for over a week. I find it cleansing, refreshing; it is good for me.” (p.531)