Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us.

The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.

There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture . . .

The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values.

The crucial fact to realize about all the powerful machinery of the Corporate State - its laws, structure, political system - is that it possesses no mind.

Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.

there is every reason to fear that the State is growing ever more powerful, more autonomous, more indifferent to its own inhabitants.

The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.

One of the problems with fame is they try to pigeonhole you... like I'm stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life.

Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community.

Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless to give man a new freedom to choose how he would live?

Romance is like maintaining a car. If you do a good job of it, you will always have a dependable quiet ride.

If you read stories, you will learn the valuable lessons of life situations, survival and build strength.

I am a great scientist.

Last day I saw him human, he was sad about the world.

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

A legend, Kludd, is a story that you begin to feel in your gizzard and then over time it becomes true in your heart. And perhaps makes you become a better owl.

It could plausibly be argued that far from Christian theology having hampered the study of nature for fifteen hundred years, it was Greek corruptions of biblical Christianity which hampered it.

Be fearless and don't be afraid of failure. There is no better way to learn than through trial-and-error.

I don’t measure America by its achievement but by its potential.