“Never insult anyone by accident.”

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere.

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.

Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.

The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.

I’ve considered having my nose fixed. But I didn’t trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.

It was all devastating. I’d never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn’t know where to put it in my life.

If there is any change regarding that hope, we should ask the Syrian people, not anyone else in the world.

It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself.

To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.

Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and not be a true friend at heart, act in the same manner, and thus art will defeat art. [If you would catch a man let him think he is catching you.]

Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.