There are circumstances in which suicide presents a viable option; a workable alternative; the only sensible solution.

One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information; (2) coherent knowledge; (3) deep understanding; (4) infinite loving wisdom; (5) no more kidney stones, please.

Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.

An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.

I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.

By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.

Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.