The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

What is salvation for humans? The answer is simple: Salvation is to perpetuate our existence via science!

You can't help it but you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts believed — so you were a good man just the same.

I've said for thirty years that capitalism is an exhausted system. But now you can see the handwriting everywhere. And one especially horrifying part is the fiscal crisis.

I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me.

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

I just think overall there's not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.

It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work.

Awareness, even at a subconscious level, beats fancy checklists without it, track or you will fail.