The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of desire.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life.

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

Your most important gear is your eye, heart and soul.

You're thinking about putting scientists into small cages and doing research on them. I wish it could happen sometimes.

Romanticism is beauty without bounds-the beautiful infinite.

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

Farmers...can no longer keep up with rising demand; thus the outlook is for chronic scarcities and rising prices.

Refreshing failures roll off the travel easel like ants from a picnic blanket.

You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.

I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.

Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.