When you've got a Chautauqua in your head, it's extremely hard not to inflict it on innocent people.

Objects are inorganic and biological values; subjects are social and intellectual values.

The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who seeks to wander freely between them almost has to forego closeness with the people around him.

The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself.

I have been a lifelong Democrat. Like all ideas, though, the Democrat ideas need to be dynamic. It needs to be kept current.

Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?

Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with quality.