The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.

Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.

Most of us lead lives of chaotic improvisation from day to day, bawling for peace while plunging grimly into fresh disorders.

J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.

Humility is a virtue when you have no other.

My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.

Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.