There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture . . .

The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.

The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values.

The crucial fact to realize about all the powerful machinery of the Corporate State - its laws, structure, political system - is that it possesses no mind.

Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.

there is every reason to fear that the State is growing ever more powerful, more autonomous, more indifferent to its own inhabitants.

The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.

One of the problems with fame is they try to pigeonhole you... like I'm stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life.

Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community.

Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless to give man a new freedom to choose how he would live?

My goal in life is to make people think. If I do that, I've been a success.

Were revolutions ever really what we thought them to be?

The secret of life is love, but the purpose of life is happiness.

The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.

Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?

It has nothing to do with commercial success. You cannot calculate in your head how to put the mosaic together to make a commercial film: that's out of the question.

I love drag queens and I love going to see them perform because those people have got so much character and bravery. Such balls! I love people with balls.

Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured.

In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.

Most of my life is just spent lying in bed. I mean, it's enough pressure to write the words. Do I need to use the additional energy exerted by sitting up?