You can work next to a guy for months without even knowing his name.

How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.

Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.

I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.

We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets what it once wanted to be.

Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.

Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.

More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication.

Stars were golden unicorns neighing unheard through blue meadows.

A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.

I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.

What matters is: Are you profitable? Are you building something great? Are you taking care of your people? Are you treating your customers well?

Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.

I'm well known because I do music at a professional level, and a certain magnitude.

I quite fancy Graham Coxon. I haven't met him yet, though. I'd like to.

I want to tell people that family violence happens to anybody, no matter how nice your house is, no matter how intelligent you are.

You know the economy is bad when illegals start complaining that Americans are taking their jobs.

A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.