Sometimes I just need to be alone with what I believe in.

You must feed yourself the truth because the world is sure to serve you lies.

I love the smell of rain and growing things.

...but I’d learned a long time ago that the worse things are, the more people lie about them.

Whenever I'm having a bad day and have an attitude, I stay home. I keep it at home.

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

If China and India were as rich as the United States is today, the market for cancer drugs would be eight times larger than it is now.

The human heart refuses To believe in a universe Without a purpose.

For the time being I have seen enough of living things, of dogs, of men, of all flabby masses which move spontaneously.

I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

Believe me, you can have anything you want-and in abundance-when you learn to tune into the power within, an infinitely greater power than electricity, a power you have had from the beginning.

My idea of a good novel was one you made enough money out of to buy a greenhouse.