As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?

Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead.

The youth of Idaho falls should be encouraged to take drugs in order to cope up with the fact that there is plutonium in their drinking water.

Come to the edge.We might fall.Come to the edge.It's too high!COME TO THE EDGE!And they cameAnd he pushedAnd they flew.

The process of learning is the process of discovering what really exists.

My parents were just carried out of the building in the service elevator, " he shouted at the cops. "They were vile, but they didn't deserve to be taken out with the trash!

On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.

Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.

Comprehensive, judicious, evenhanded, original. An Unfinished Life has the sober judgment and nuanced accuracy that make it ring true in all the controversial and tricky parts.

Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?

I was very protective of my father and I didn't like these people who hung around outside all day. They creeped me out.

Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.