A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark.
The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material things.
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. . . It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.
We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we are going to be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we'll be doing the wrong thing, and we will just be part of the disease, and not a part of the cure.
Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.
Just as the Romans were the only nation that was truly a nation, so our age is the first genuine age.
It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking.
Dear Diary: My teen angst bullshit now has a body count.
My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.