Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.
Without language, it is safe to say that man would not have become fully human.
We feed upon each other's mouths and minds like ants with social stomachs.
Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies.
The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to pursue the quest through the wide range of linguistics, archeology, folklore, philology, ethnobotany, plant ecology, human physiology, and prehistory constitutes an object lesson to all holistic professional students of man.
Some say he never blinks, and that he roams around the woods at night foraging for wolves. All we know is he’s called the Stig.
. . . the designer of a new system must not only be the implementor and the first large-scale user; the designer should also write the first user manual. . . . If I had not participated fully in all these activities, literally hundreds of improvements would never have been made, because I would never have thought of them or perceived why they were important.
I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore.
Actors, it's very hard for them to make value judgments when they play characters. It's very dangerous if you start thinking of yourself as a bad guy.