To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness.

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.

The map is not the territory.

Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us.

There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Words don't mean, people mean.

The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map.

Who rules our symbols, rules us.

A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

I am the same kind of moron as the rest of you, it's the method that does the work, for me as well as for you.

The future cannot be controlled, only experienced.

Food shortage will be to the 1990's what oil shortage was to the 1970's.

One's work is never so bad as it appears on bad days, nor so good as it appears on good days.

About weak points [of the Origin] I agree. The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder, but when I think of the fine known gradations, my reason tells me I ought to conquer the cold shudder.

Arizona is a red state, and we're going to keep it red.

Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better.

Relationships do change throughout the course of your life, and I always think in terms of relationships changing and evolving rather than starting and stopping.

We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.

The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.

Oh, I was working occasionally in and out of New York.