Most things in this world don´t work, aspirin do.

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this.

What is my definition of jazz? 'Safe sex of the highest order.

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.