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

Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.

What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.

We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.

There's another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the world around him. If I switch it on my eyes adapt to it and I can see only the small pool of light it makes in front of me; I am isolated. Leaving the flashlight in my pocket where it belongs, I remain a part of the environment I walk through and my vision though limited has no sharp or definite boundary.

I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.