Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.

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.

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?

My goal in life is to make people think. If I do that, I've been a success.

Icarus should have waited for nightfall, the moon would have never let him go.

Dreams are like drama, they unfold the story on the stage.

There more we read the Holy Bible, there more we will believe in God.

Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin.

I never took the fame too seriously. It was a great period in my life, but it doesn't define me.

My puppies play a daily role in inspiring me too! But most of all, my husband, Conroy Chan, inspires me in life. He's always there to help keep me going.

But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest.

The Stars are setting and the Caravan Starts for the Dawn of Nothing-Oh, make haste!

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.