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

All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?

Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee.

Those who dream of the joys of living in a space colony should live in a space colony.