...we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library underneath a sign who….

I love you, because the love you gave me was the only love I've ever had, the only love I ever will have.

I urge you to please notice when you are happy..

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center..

Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like so many addicts about ….

For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms..

He couldn't tell the difference between one politician and another. They were all formlessly enthusiastic chimpanzees to him..

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours..

We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten..

There were lots of things to stop and see-and then it was time to go, always time to go..

Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God..

Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God..

It was headquartered in Michigan City, a long way off. I never saw Ku Klux Klan march..

As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash..

It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments..

Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind..

THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smart….

Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't c….

Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first..

Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was the way authors ….

Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on ….