... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.

The surest way to keep a secret is to make people believe they already know the answer.

Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.

The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche.

The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria.