Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.

Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.

The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.

I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore.

Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.

A writer off-guard since the materials with which he works are so dangerous can expect agony as quick as a thunderclap.

It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done

Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!

Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive.

Wealth is a byproduct of wealth-oriented education, ideas, and thoughts.

...Many shadows hide behind light, and the best lies are those seasoned liberally with truth: salt covering the flavor of rotten meat.

society's been drugging its women for years

You cannot represent cool. You've got to be cool. You've got to be authentic. I think, after all these years, that is how I define cool. It is being authentic. That is powerful.

The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love - surely one of the most despicable forms of barter that can exchange human hands.

The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again.

I'm constantly making exhibitions in my head.

When Charity is deeply rooted in the soul it shows itself exteriorly: there is so gracious a way of refusing what we cannot give, that the refusal pleases as much as the gift.