“The pencil is mightier than the pen.”

“Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive”

“Your common sense is nothing more than the voices of thousands and thousands of these ghosts from the past.”

“If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas”

“We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than on "time"....”

“Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and isolating the highlands and to no particular purpose other than the wasteful fulfillment of its own internal momentum”

“But to tear down a factory or to revolt against a government or to avoid repair of a motorcycle because it is a system is to attack effects rather than causes; and as long as the attack is upon effects only, no change is possible. The true system, the real system, is our present construction of systematic thought itself, rationality itself, and if a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves in the succeeding government. There’s so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.”