There is nothing safer than flying - it's crashing that is dangerous.

When storms come, we naturally want to run. What might happen in your friendships if you learned instead to stay put when storms hit?

It is bound to be a failure, every book is a failure, but I do know with some clarity what kind of book I want to write.

Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.

If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.

I love having the opportunity to surf.

By the grace of God, I'll be that man.

The people gave their money and they gave their screams, but the Beatles gave their nervous systems, which is a much more difficult thing to give.

I'm not doing my philanthropic work out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.

[Moralistic] novels are at the same disadvantage as teachers: children never believe them, because they make everything that happens relate to the lesson at hand.

We want to be open-minded enough to accept radial new ideas when they occasionally come along, but we don't want to be so open-minded that our brains fall out.