Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.

The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.

The responsibility for change...lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.

Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.

My mother, my psychiatrist and an assortment of sedatives eventually convinced me I was delusional.

I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.

It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

No book can truly be original, but there are always way to make it unique.

There was also the fact that sometimes vampires committed crimes worse than murder. They commited crimes against fashion.

There is no such thing as time management. There is only the mindset that optimally manages the self and its actions.

Downsizing means you're about to become the guest of honor at a going-away party.

If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.

Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.

We don't need men with new ideas as much as we need men who will put energy behind the old ideas.