“Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.”

“Another Person's trash is another person's treasure.”

“The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied...but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which as beggar is a reminder of nothing.”

“I wish trash were treasure, because then I’d be a garbage collector and king.”

“Culture is any and all human effort and labor expended upon the cosmos, to unearth its treasures and its riches and bring them into the service of man for the enrichment of human existence unto the glory of God.”

“One man's trash is another man's treasure is a third man's raw materials for their planet-buster earthquake machine.”