What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?

The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing.

I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.

The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission.

Falling in love indicated that your genes were complementary to those of the loved one. It told you nothing about when your personalities and sexualities were compatible.

Change the problem by changing your mind.

The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.

All life is a struggle for existence. Why should it cease to be a struggle if it spreads among the stars?

"Anyway... I find what you write interesting." "That's what people usually say when they disagree with it."

Of all the sciences, astronomy was the one the superstitious liked least.

For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable.

Powerful people do not try to control other people. They know it doesn't work, and that it's not their job. Their job is to control themselves.

Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky.

I'm not one of those people who are like always joking in person.

To be ignorant of one's own ignorance is to be in an unprogressive, uninspired state of existence.

Jayne Mansfield is making a career of being a girl.

Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.

Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities.

To be here and now, you have to be in meditation, beyond mind.

It was something I enjoyed doing and decided to give it a couple years, though I'm not making a lot of money now either!

I didn't grow up in a regular upbringing. I ended up at my grandmother's house past a certain age, so I took care of things myself. I moved out of home when I was 16.