"[W]e shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man."

"What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stagecoaches?"

"I chose and my word was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken a€” the choosing was not. Just keep moving on..."

"The written word can be erased - not so with the spoken word."

"The truth of the matter is that window management under X is not yet well understood."

"Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it!"

"Old age is always fifteen years older than I am."

"The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: there is a forward motion to yearning."

"California, the department store state."

"RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead."

"Don't jump on a man unless he's down."

"We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing."