The world is only tolerable because of the empty places in it...when the world's filled up, we'll have to get hold of a star. Any star. Venus, or Mars. Get hold of it and leave it empty. Man needs an empty space somewhere for his spirit to rest in.

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.

When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it is the chief preoccupation to avoid), his sense of guilt, which he denies, fumes up in resentment and he brings down the whip.

It is my belief that children are full of understanding and know as much as and more than adults, until they are about seven, when they suddenly become stupid, like adults.

I am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind of magic.

Writers do not come out of houses without books.

I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.