The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down?

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.

I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!

It's wonderful to feel desired. There's a sense of power in it, really.

There are few things more destructive than thoughts believed without question.

Culture has little to do with how refined a man's intellect is

Am I less of a person because I weigh more?

The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.

Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]

You don't see a lot of MBAs as CEOs. The MBAs tend to get hired by the CEOs.

The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.

I don't like L.A. I've always said that, and people hate on me for it. I don't really like the city.