But lies were what people wanted; that was politics.

Rock is much more malleable than ideas.

It is always the teacher who must learn the most... or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.

On the river path in Boston beauty was most expressed as youth and intelligence. That made sense; sixty degree-giving institutions, some three hundred thousand students; that meant at least one hundred fifty thousand more nubile young women than demographics would ordinarily suggest. Maybe that was why young men stayed in Boston when their college years were over, maybe that explained why they were so intellectually hyperactive, so frustrated, so alcoholic, such terrible drivers.

Fights over ideas are the most vicious of all. If it were merely food, or water, or shelter, we would work something out. But in the realm of ideas one can become idealistic .

The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.

Easier to destroy the world than to change capitalism even one little bit.