Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.

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

A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.

I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me; I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness. Loveliness and a quiet exultation.

We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal.

Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.

In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.