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.

You can't belay a man who's falling in love.

The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race.

My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'

The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.