The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition.

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic.

At any rate, Daddy usually comes to my defence. Without him I wouldn't be able to stick out here.

The universe, I’d learned, was never, ever kidding.

When we focus on others, our world expands.

The samurais were very interested in Zen because they admired the tremendous precision that the Zen Masters had, their lack of fear and pain and their absolute lack of fear of death.

I've been having problems with the right wing lately.

To say that Sputnik gave rise to some concern in the United States would be the understatement of the century. The truth is that the US went apeshit

You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.

He got drunk last night, kicked Mama down the stairs. But I'm alright, so I don't care.

I hear the howl of the wind that brings The long drear storm on its heavy wings.