Now, the engineers and managers believe with all their hearts the glorious things their forebears hired people to say about them. Yesterday's snow job becomes today's sermon.

What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!

The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.

I go on many thrilling adventures and wondrous, profound escapades through books.

I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any 'Good Old Days,' there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, 'Don't look at me. I just got here myself.'

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.

The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.