“I have not stopped water when it should run. I have not made a cutting in a canal of running water.”

“The only nightmare I could remember was from when I was a very small child, maybe three or four years old. Cookie Monster from Sesame Street had been babysitting me and kept chasing me around the house calling me 'Cookie'. I was trying to focus on it, but at sixteen years old, it was funny to me now.”

“The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fact is that the society is not running itself nicely... because the rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent that young people can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For society to attempt to solve its desperate problems without the full participation of even very young people is imbecile.”

“If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy. ”

“It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.”

“A rose by any other name would likely be "deadly thornbearing assault vegetation.”

“Learning is a journal not a destination”