I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore.

Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.

The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.

Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.

Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.

A writer off-guard since the materials with which he works are so dangerous can expect agony as quick as a thunderclap.

It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done

Smartass Disciple: Which one was first created, time or things?Master of Stupidity: No things, no changes. No changes, no time.

You're staring, " Lana said."Yes. I am. I'm a teenage boy. Beautiful girls in wet underwear have a tendency to cause staring in teenage boys.

That's why I've always loved country music. Whether it's sad, pumps you up, or it's breakup songs, it's all real-life things.

There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

All we have is here and now. That's why procrastination feels so right. Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution.

The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another.

It's all about understanding that God is behind every performance, good or bad, and that trusting Him will always leave you satisfied.

If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly.

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.