It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.

Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place.

Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the byproduct of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.

Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

The human body is always treated as an image of society.

Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.

Very few people realize how dangerous the indoor environment can be to long term health.

Daphne’s thought in Nation: This was no time to go totally mad. You had to maintain standards.

It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.

In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when someone they love dies, when they fall in love.

I think that the issues we have with science these days are not restricted to what's happening with respect to religion. There are a lot of very religious scientists around.

all the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear

Rock star, flier than an ostrich...

[On STDs] This be Nature’s way of recommending monogamy.

Your great glory is not to be inferior to what you have been given by nature, and the greatest glory of a woman is to be least talked about by men, whether theyare praising or criticizing you.

There's nothing as human as hunger. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art.