I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.