Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.

To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.

There is always time to take more time.

It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.

Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.

Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head.

Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.

Education: learning to find your purpose. Upon finding your purpose: what did I learn?

It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face -- the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by the educational production lines on Terra.

Reality is the dream for the subconscious mind.

Everybody tends to think I'm crazy, which is the biggest problem in my life.

Alastair Moock is the second coming of John Prine.

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

The Product of Freedom and Security is a constant (F X S = k). Giving up freedom for security is beginning to look naive.

Expectation brings frustration. Private ambitions bring failures.

I learned to walk on my own legs, to dive so deeply into a role to forget that Im acting.

It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.