If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.

You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.