Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

A little bit closer to the stars, anything seemed possible.

The good thing about science is that its true whether or not you believe in it

The locust has no kingJust noise and hard languageThey talk me over

We lie to God in prayer if we do not rely on him afterwards.

You can’t encore the past. If I see a bright light shining out there, I want to go toward it.

Your life either takes your energy or gives you energy. Set up your life so that it gives you energy.

People are going to have to make themselves predictable, or the machines will get angry and kill them.

To know Pritkin was to want to kill him, but so far I'd resisted temptation.

Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.

If you want know what sort of a justice I would make, then look at what sort of a judge I have been.