Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt.

There's birth, there's death, and in between there's maintenance.

In technological development, in production of material goods and creature comforts, we've challenged the very gods, but psychologically, emotionally, we're scarcely more than chimpanzees with bulldozers, baboons with big bombs.

You wonder if God doesn't have an answering machine to screen out the prayers of the venal and the boring? And in which category has he placed you?

Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure)

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.