Truth can be really powerful stuff if you're not expecting it.

George Bush and his gang imagine they are being political geniuses.

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.

Powers Hapgood had just come from court because there was some kind of dust-up on a picket line. The judge was so curious about him - coming from a rich family - why he would choose to live as he had. I guess you know what his answer was ..."The Sermon on the Mount, sir." That's important.

Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.

It's an astonishing skill that people can read, and read well. Very few people can read well. For instance, I have to be very careful with irony, saying something while meaning the exact opposite.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.