The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours.

Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison.

I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.

Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone.

The creative adult is the child who has survived.

Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; the hand that bears it is heavier. When it is thrown, the circuits of the stars respond, and where it strikes or falls the universe is changed.

Paradise is for those who make paradise.