That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in mind.

I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting shame, they do die like men, thus making possible the manly jubilation of patriotic holidays. But they are murdered children all the same.

Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think that money was so valuable?

Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world's champions.

Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

My ancestors were all Freethinkers, formerly Catholics. It was science and Darwin, in particular, that made them decide, as educated people, which they were, that the priest, nice as he was, didn't know what he was talking about.

My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand.