Words themselves become beings, sentences becomenatural vegetation to be guided by the gardener's hands.

There are only two kinds of people in the world, suckers and people that can be had. Everyone can be had, but a sucker will always bet you $50 that he can't be had. Maybe magicians are around to remind us we can all be had, so we don't become suckers.

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.

With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth.

The chief source of problems is solutions.

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.