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

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.

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

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.

you wanted it all to make senseand you wanted the most complicated answer, but the answer is simple.just be.

Don’t be shaken by the circumstance.

Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

Bing was always hesitant to accept appreciation in any form.

Muscles I know; they are my friends. But I have forgotten their names.

The one thing in life you can control is your effort. Are there any shortcuts in the beauty business? No. That was the first lesson I learned. You can't just rocket to the top.

My hand feels touched as well as it touches; reality says this, and nothing more.

I have a deep reverence for everything that is alive, a reverence for life itself.

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.