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

Science is magic that works.

It often is a terrible insult to some families if one of the kids turns out to be an artist and that's one way to really shake up the family if you haven't got nerve enough to turn into a homosexual.

And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.

Harry closed his eyes. He never wanted to open them again. His heart sent this message to his molecules: "For reasons obvious to all of us, this galaxy is dissolved!

I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.

The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn't want to be used by anybody.