Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

Tommie Aaron taught me how to have a good attitude, to be easy going and not get uptight.

It seems with progress you gain certain things and you lose certain things. The automobile replaced the horse and buggy but you lost all of that nice manure.

When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics.

The future of punk rock has nothing to do with guitars. Everything interesting that I've heard in years has been nearly all electronic.

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

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This is so lame to say in a magazine, but I just grabbed some pink wallpaper. I find it to be a very relaxing color.

Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?

Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere.

[Princess Margaret] was always trying to radicalize things.