The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought, particularly for those who have bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

What a wonderful thing, to be conscious! I wonder what the people in New Jersey do.

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree'-probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

Man is the only animal that knows he's going to die, so we invent a heaven to keep from going crazy. Most people are hypnotized by organized religion from chil…

As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.

I can't shake off the idea that after death you keep being alive. That to be dead is to live an endless nightmare.