I am convinced that we humans are just at the beginning of our journey, on our way to becoming something more wonderful than we can imagine.

Global consciousness is that thing responsible for deciding that pots containing decaffeinated coffee should be orange.

If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.

Design: holding conflicting ideas in your head without difficulty

The computers are in control. We just live in their world.

An attitude of only taking what you need was built into the protocols of the Internet itself.

I'm as fond of my body as anyone, but if I can be 200 with a body of silicon, I'll take it.

We're at a point in time which is analogous to when single-celled organisms were turning into multi-celled organisms. So we're the amoebas.

I may not be perfect, but God knows I'm trying . . . and God knowing should count for something.

So you're an angel, fine, that's terrific. Now give me back my shadows. (Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel)

At home they thought of white people as a vague but powerful entity--like the forces that control the weather, that capable of destruction, that hidden from view.

I think for me the job always has to be the right thing at the right time.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

A carpenter is known by his chips.

If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.

Refusing further service as a Roman soldier: I am a soldier of Christ: combat is not permitted to me.

Getting love is a very small experience. It is the experience of beggar.

Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.