In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.

Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.

It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.

Grown men do not need leaders.

I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.