The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.

World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.

The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.

We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.

Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge.

I'm in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.

I've been to Chicago a lot - it's one of my favorite places. My wife is from Chicago, and I worked in the theater there a lot.

The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do, and so should we.

For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices.

I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers.

It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.

I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.

I have to do something with my mind, or I'll get in trouble.