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.

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

Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

The chief source of problems is solutions.

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.

The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling.'