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

Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.

You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.

One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least for a time. For a while. Perhaps that is enough.

The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically.

My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.

Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?