Familiar Things Are A Comfort To Us

I'd Be More Willing To Accept Religion, Even If I Didn't Believe It, If I Thought It Made People Nicer To Each Other But I Don't Think It Does.

There Is Obviously A Great Human Need For Religion Because Life Seems To Be Such A Mystery.

Creativity Is A By-product Of Hard Work. If I Never Have Another Really New Idea, It Won't Matter.

We're All Torn Between The Desire For Privacy And The Fear Of Lonliness. We Need Each Other And We Need To Get Away From Each Other. We Need Proximity And Distance, Conversation And Silence. We Almost Always Get More Of Each Than We Want At Any One Time.

There Are Only A Few Safe Targets Left, Just A Few Groups Of People You Can Say Anything Negative About Without Getting In Trouble For It. I've Made A List Of Safe Targets And I Probably Ought To Stick To Those. Politicians, For Instance. You Can Say Anything You Want About Them, And It Doesn't Matter How Unfair You Are. People Seem To Like It.