Like living creatures, automobiles expired when their environment became saturated with their own excreta. We ourselves are living creatures. We don't want the same to happen to us.

It's supposed to be automatic but actually you have to press this button.

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.

After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.

What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

To go faster you must slow down.

There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.

If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?

Let's all be different same as me.

How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art.

Being rich is an untalented artist’s consolation prize.

I wanted to bathe in plum juice, rediscover my body and adorn it in kiwi circles.

Get thee behind me, tragedy.

If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.

Ahimsa must express itself through acts of selfless service of the masses.

Well, I'm writing everything that isn't my final project, so that when I actually sit down to write it, that's all that will be left in my mind.

The last time we raised the gas tax, which is how we built the interstate system, was 1993.

I wasn't a very athletic boy. I was once lapped in the long jump

I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't see through a spelling-book. What a narrow idea a reading qualification is for a voter!