Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.

World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.

The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.

We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

I've got the kid. I feel a little more relief that I don't have to just think about myself too much.

A recurring dream probably merits close attention. Something wants you to pay attention.

Writing a book is like running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible, physically.

You who think of us: they lived only in delusion... Know that we the People of the Book, will never die!

I would be happier if people who went through MFA programs also were already, by then, deeply committed readers of poetry because we need readers of poetry as much as writers of poetry.

With my name in cement, I feel actualised. - On cementing his hand prints on Sunset Boulevard

When you give thanks as though you have already received what you want, you are emitting a powerful signal to the Universe.

Sometimes it takes some time out on your own to find your way back home.