How far would people get in physics if discovery was described as disgusting - "Your formula is disgusting and filthy"? Not very far.

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.

I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring to put down in a more or less straightforward journalistic style something about my experiences with addiction and addicts.

All abilities are paid for with disabilities. perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. insight into one area involves blind spots in another.

Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.

Communication must become total and conscious before we can stop it.

Death needs time for what it kills to grow in.