If after having been exposed to someone's presence you feel as if you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.

We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

Intelligence opens the door to the universe

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

I think having an uncompromising ideology eventually forces you out of the norm.

NATO is going to be just fine.

My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

To me a great sci-fi movie has elements of horror and suspense.

Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.

For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.

If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.