"Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction."

"I think I am a verb."

"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."

"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."

"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."

"Either war is obsolete or men are."

"I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things."

"If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia."

"Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar."

"He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself."

"Ever notice that what the hell is always the right decision?"

"INFLUENCE, n. In politics, a visionary _quo_ given in exchange for a substantial _quid_."