Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it would hurt so much.

What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.

You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.

The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.

It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.

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

So many people think that practicing an art is a good way to make a living. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. I'm talking about singing in the shower, I'm talking about dancing to the radio, I'm talking about writing a poem to a friend.