Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry

Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.

Only times and places, only names and ghosts.

It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.

One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

We can't allow science to undo its own good work.