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"It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better."
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"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."

"Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."

"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

"I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off."

"But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man."

"When you are pulling people out of the water and off of rooftops, there are no Republicans and no Democrats."
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"The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future."

"In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not."

"All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction."

"The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality."

"Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier."

"By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth."
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