Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.

It's humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

The further a device is removed from human control, the more authentically mechanical it seems, and the whole trend in technology has been to devise machines that are less and less under direct human control and more and more under their own apparent will.

I don't think I've ever held a racket in my hand ... There's got to be somebody in the US who isn't trying to play tennis and stinking up the court.

We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood.

I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader.