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.

A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance.

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

Writing is its own reward.