The arts are not a way to make a living.

She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.

Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.

The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.

Traveling is like dancing lessons from God.

It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!

It appeared to the Elders that the people here would believe anything about themselves, no matter how preposterous, as long as it was flattering. To make sure of this, they performed an experiment. They put the idea into Earthlings' heads that the whole Universe had been created by one big animal who looked just like them. He sat on a throne with a lot of less fancy thrones all around him. When people died they got to sit on those other thrones forever because they were such close relatives of the Creator. The people down here just ate that up!