We should be most careful about retreating from the specific challenge of our age. We should be reluctant to turn our back upon the frontier of this epoch... We cannot be indifferent to space, because the grand slow march of our intelligence has brought us, in our generation, to a point from which we can explore and understand and utilize it. To turn back now would be to deny our history, our capabilities.

During my lifetime I have met dozens of writers and photographers in dozens of different countries. But I have encountered no one who could both write and photograph with the artistry of Robert Vavra.

If I were a young man, I would not hesitate at writing anything to get into print, except pornography.

Every animal that walks the earth, or swims, or flies is precious beyond description, something so rare and wonderful that it equals the stars or the ocean or the mind of man.

...when men ignite in their hearts a religious fury, they inflict at the same time a blindness on their eyes.

The decent thing to do is to get rid of some of this money.

Religious hatreds ought not to be propagated at all, but certainly not on a tax-exempt basis.