The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

We honor ambition, we reward greed, we celebrate materialism, we worship acquisitiveness, we commercialize art, we cherish success and then we bark at the young about the gentle arts of the spirit. The kids know that if we really valued learning, we would pay our teachers what we pay our lawyers and stockbrokers. If we valued art, we would not measure it by its capacity to produce profits. If we regarded literature as important, we would remove it from the celebrity sweepstakes and spend a little money on our libraries.

Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the reality of childhood, could suppose it is time of joys.

There are no liberals behind steering wheels.

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.