Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.

The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.

I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith.

I'm very pessimistic.