You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too.

Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines.

We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted.

Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a dictionary, isn't that the only reason they find writing hard: they don't know or care about anything?

In 1844, Karl Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." He said this at a time when opium and opium derivatives were the only painkillers. And he said it helped a little. He might as well have said, "Religion is the aspirin of the people."

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.