We have revolutionary thought whenever the feeling "life is a dream" becomes geared to an impulse to awaken from it.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.

We are always in the place of beginning; there is no advance in infinity.

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns.

The bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.

It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.

We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.

I managed to reach a depth of self-loathing that usually takes a night of drinking to achieve.

Life is like a tree and its root is consciousness. Therefore, once we tend the root, the tree as a whole will be healthy.

As far as a career legacy, I just want to be known as the guy everyone had to watch for, constantly.

I feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks.

I'm me and you're you, and all of them out there are them. And we're all so different and equally unimportant.

We all make mistakes and sometimes you say things and you really don't realize what you're saying at that moment.

A fallow field is a sin.

I hate amateurs. I hate unprofessional people. There are enough people who can do jobs decently that there's no reason that people who cannot do them decently [should] pretend to be great at it.

Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation.