My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew's and Albert Einstein's.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.

In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

Why are people afraid of ghosts? 'Ooh, no, I wouldn't want to see one! I'd be too scared' - accompanied by a tremolo of fear in the voice - is the common reaction. This puzzles me. I'd think anyone would welcome he opportunity. I've never heard of a ghost hurting anybody.

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.

Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.