Instead of exposures to toxic materials and mechanical dangers, we are discovering the toxicity of social circumstances and patterns of social organization.

If Americans want to live the American dream, they should go to Denmark.

... class differences in health represent a double injustice: life is short where its quality is poor.

In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment.

I have two moods:1. Sleep is for the weak.2. Sleeping for a week.

Don't do anything that you wouldn't feel comfortable reading about in the newspaper the next day.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

I grew up like a neglected weed, ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Then I was not happy or contented: every time I saw a white man I was afraid of being carried away.

All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves.

It's either hip or it ain't.

Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.

If somebody tries to tell me the earth was created in 7 days I take a fossil and say "FOSSIL". If he still won't shut up I throw it at him.

I think that all comics or humorists, or whatever we are, ask questions. That's what we're supposed to do. But I not only ask the questions, I offer solutions.

If you have something to say about somebody, look the person in the eye and say it.