The Victorians, they were like the Germans in World War II. They could not stop recording details about their lives and their age.

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction

It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.

The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer

Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.

If everyone could understand the working of a psychopath's mind, we undoubtedly would be closer to insanity ourselves.

Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.

Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

Our eyes met. I kissed her soft face, and down the stairs they descended. Their voices blended into an echo, a murmur. I ventured barefoot into the bedroom. The dark gown lay crumpled upon the bed

What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head?

Don't shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.

I've lived the American Dream, but, sadly, for too many, the American Dream is fading.

The free man is the man with no fears.

Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.

Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient's belief.

Don't be afraid of being emotional. You won't die of it.

I had this little handheld transistor radio that I used to sleep next to.

What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not completed to that point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, "It is finished. We made it, and it works.