The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.

Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.

Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.

I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore.

Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.

A writer off-guard since the materials with which he works are so dangerous can expect agony as quick as a thunderclap.

It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done

Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.

In tears, we labour for what we want.

There are kinds of solitude that provide a respite from loneliness, a holiday if not a cure.

Is there anything that can replace life?

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Live. Love. Smile. Hug. Laugh. Dream. Do. Create. Have fun. Be intense. Be audacious. Be unreasonable. Act impeccably. Breathe. Be you. Be different.

Our attention to each breath keeps us in the now.

Youth need less critics and more models.

Science has become adult; I am not sure whether scientists have.

The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.