Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; close up they are apt to appear ugly and malicious. More than anything they need to be surrounded with sufficient space―space even more than time.

To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.

Those interested in celestial navigation are advised to first obtain a rudimentary knowledge of integral calculus, phlebotomy, astral physics and related subjects. The use of liquor is strictly forbidden on interplanetary flights.

I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it.

Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?