“After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.”

Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.

A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

Great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

The boldness to face them, face them square.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.

We must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

Be solved if we have the will, the courage

There is…a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied..

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

And when we lose faith in the system

So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes.

The Buddha’s insight into the middle way is not simply about a balance between extremes. This conventional understanding misses the deeper revelation of the middle way as being the very nature of unexcelled enlightenment.

Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.

Fog and hypocrisy – that is to say, shadow, convention, decency – these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.