True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. Read Summary
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Read Summary
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. Read Summary
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. Read Summary
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center. Read Summary
I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep. Read Summary
Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia. Read Summary
I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours. Read Summary
I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government. Read Summary
The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal. Read Summary
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. Read Summary
What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law. Read Summary
This is Sunday, and the question arises, what'll I start tomorrow? Read Summary
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. Read Summary
I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do. Read Summary
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. Read Summary
I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different. Read Summary
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia. Read Summary
Science is magic that works. Read Summary
Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time? Read Summary