The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don’t—whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.

But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark.

The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become, first inside, and then outside, junk. Flower stalks.

Momentarily drained of lust, he stares at the remembered contortions to which it has driven him. His life seems a sequence of grotesque poses assumed to no purpose, a magic dance empty of belief.

They’ve not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him.

I hated the quiet. I could hear my fears that much louder for it.

You can't miss the horror, every moment it’s interesting.

It's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it's impossible to have that debate.

We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.

The key to life is to set goals and go after those goals, don't hold anything back.

And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!

Seeing the small is called Clarity. Keeping flexible is called Strength. Using the shining Radiance, You enter the Light, Where no harm can come to you. This is called Enlightenment.

Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.

The well dressed man never stands out in a crowd; his elegance sets him apart.

Before I knew what was happening, I had a fistful of spears around my neck like a collar. I could have shaved myself with one sneeze.