If all individuals were conditioned to machine efficiency in the performance of their duties there would have to be at least one person outside the machine to give the necessary orders; if the machine absorbed or eliminated all those outside the machine, the machine will slow down and stop forever.

His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is also an aura of doom and sadness about this trusting little creature. He has been abandoned many times over the centuries, left to die in cold city alleys, in hot noon vacant lots, pottery shards, nettles, crumbled mud walls. Many times he has cried for help in vain.

The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.

No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.

Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?

There isn't a feeling you can get on drugs that you can't get without drugs.