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

Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.

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.

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

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

Everyone has a monster inside

I want it to stop, " he said. "Sophie says everyone is still searching for a cure for me. I know I gave Will my permission, but I want everyone to cease looking now, Charlotte. It is over.

Snooty knew measly talked muchly.

In heaven we shall see that we had not one trial too many.

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

What has been doing in the last week, attacking Hollywood actresses [Meryl Streep] for criticizing him, I mean what would is this guy [Donald Trump] living in?

The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.

Are women necessary? Not with Ava around

Pain, tolerance, endurance-when it comes down to that point, there's always something left. You just have to find it.

I think one of the reasons I'm so thrilled with writing is because it is an act of reading for me at the same time, which is why my revisions are so sustained.