“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

“If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a...”

“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”

“People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. T...”

“The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.”

“Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.”

“As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide. For want of a...”

“New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.”

“The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large be...”