Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Sunlight is painting.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.