Education in the West, particularly higher education in America, has lost the ability to see the universe from very far away.

Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too.

I have learned a lot about good and evil - they are not always what they appear to be.

Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.

I have deceived my friends, and I had millions of them.

I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.

I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.

I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.

My total winnings after 14 appearances were $129,000.

It is very important to understand why those annoying people annoy you and then figure out where that fits into your world.

I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.

I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected.

We've got to get back to rebuilding the middle class, the families of America. That's where growth will come from.

It is doubtless very desirable, that private persons should have a correct knowledge of their personal interests; but it must be infinitely more so, that governments should possess that knowledge.

Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.

Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.

I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.

Culture opens the sense of beauty.

The traditional manner of taking psilocybin is to take a very healthy dose, in the vicinity of 15 mg. on an empty stomach in total darkness.