“In the beginning was the thing. And one thing led to another.”

“Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate resposne to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.”

“Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means.”

“Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal of rearranging one's perceptions and transforming one's self.”

“To specialize is to brush one tooth. When a person specializes he channels all of his energies through one narrow conduit; he knows one thing extremely well and is ignorant of almost everything else.”

“There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.”

“The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves.”