Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.
Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.
Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice but for different reasons.
[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.
The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.
We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.
Are you afraid of falling, baby? No, I’m afraid of landing. [He’s laughing, and I’m smiling. ] Stupid idiot smile, don’t you know what comes next?
What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection. . . the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate.
If we want to see an end to personal and global conflict, then love is the only real answer.