The surprise of animals... in and out, cats and dogs and a milk goat and chickens and guinea hens, all taken for granted, as if man was intended to live on terms of friendly intercourse with the rest of creation instead of huddling in isolation on the fourteenth floor of an apartment house in a city where animals occurred behind bars in the zoo.

Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.

Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.

Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself.

The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful.

How can you communicate your thoughts or demonstrate your hypotheses by conventional means when all the values and standards that you want to challenge are built into those means? Science and new technology today like to declare that they encourage 'lateral thinking,' new ways of seeing and putting data together - but all systems have an inbuilt resistance to what has not been programmed into them through the premises on which their rules are based.

We don't get offered crises, they arrive.