I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

That which costs little is less valued.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

An idea is salvation by imagination

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.