One cannot sell anything to a satisfied man. Ergo, make him want something new, or take away something that he has and then sell him something to take its place.

The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.

There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture . . .

The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values.

The crucial fact to realize about all the powerful machinery of the Corporate State - its laws, structure, political system - is that it possesses no mind.

Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.

there is every reason to fear that the State is growing ever more powerful, more autonomous, more indifferent to its own inhabitants.

The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.

One of the problems with fame is they try to pigeonhole you... like I'm stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life.

Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community.

Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless to give man a new freedom to choose how he would live?

It is not where we are that matters nor what we have, it is what we do with where we are and what we have.

Why so many wounded people look for forgiveness from who has injured them?

My spirit is free. My heart is taken.

Photography is the art of not pushing the button.

There is no one solution to all problems. It's the problem itself that can lead to the solution.

dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions.

In spite of the pangs of travail, the longing for motherhood remains the most powerful instinct in woman.

I at least want to keep having fun, and the rest we will see.

Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you.