Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.

Don't trust anybody who'd rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.

Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting.

Hawaii made the mouth of her soul water.

As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the "call of nature" will be answered by a machine.

Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate resposne to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

Much scientific truth proved to be as hypothetical as poetic allegory. The relationshiip of those rod-connected blue and red balls to an actual atomic structure was about the same as the relationship of Christianity to the fish or the Lamb.