Growth is a substitute for equality of income. So long as there is growth there is hope, and that makes large income differentials tolerable.

Freedom is like health, it is taken for granted while one has it. One becomes aware of it when it has gone.

Profits are part of the mechanism by which society decides what it wants to see produced.

Power is the great enemy of freedom

I trace the letters on the tree behind us in the picture. No one knows what's churning inside of me. Crushing guilt...Pain...Relief. All mixed with knowledge that Trip is never coming back.

Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon.

People looking up at her--at her smooth pretty vivacious face--had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind.

Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words.

Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

When I'm choosing things, there's a level of intelligence I want to peel off, whether it's written in terribly simple sentences, whether it's from the point of view of a dog, or a 15-year-old boy.

Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.

Television deprives children of their imaginations.