People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes.
Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
The bomb goes off in Australia, and a 360-degree sphere of ionosphere (which is up there not too far above your heads, not too many miles) flashes. In other words, the flash in Australia, the ionosphere flashes. People get a secondary kickback from the ionosphere just as though they were standing next to the bomb, don't you see?
Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers that there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it.
I did not want to leave the Mets and I did not want to leave New York.
The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.