What we do not understand, we cannot control.

The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.

One of the problems with fame is they try to pigeonhole you... like I'm stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life.

Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a momentum of their own. In our country, they pulverize everything in their path - the landscape, the natural environment.

The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values.

Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth.

There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture . . .