After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.

It's supposed to be automatic but actually you have to press this button.

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.

What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

To go faster you must slow down.

There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.

If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?

Let's all be different same as me.

You have many years to live do things you will be proud to remember when you're old.

When people keep telling you that you can’t do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

Sometimes thinking is like talking to another person, but that person is also you.

I don't need to write a memoir of my life. All you need to do is read one of my books. I'm there.

Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not — self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company, yet still possessing secret lives.

I can't afford to say yes to all my staff's desires, but one thing is certain – I can't afford the outrageous cost of not listening to their requests.

For the first time since life appeared on earth, one species- us- is single-handedly altering the physical, chemical and biological nature of earth. We have become a force of nature

My generation came at a time when photography was advancing by leaps and bounds, creating the impulse to experiment and seek new approaches.

I'm just online too much. I drink too much. A lot of bad things.

It should look as if it has always been like that, as if Nature had made it that way. That's good design.

I write the kind of stuff I'd like to watch.