"The purpose of apology is to extend ourselves in such a way that relationships become deeper, and life becomes richer and more human in the process."

“Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or pure stupidity live anywhere else in the world.”

“A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.”

Source : Alluding to his many imitators. Quoted in David Pickering Brewer's Twentieth Century Music (1994).

“Somehow the notion has been loosed that nature is hostile to man or that her ways are offensive or slovenly, so that every step of progress is measured by how far we have altered these. Nothing short of a recovery of the ancient virtue of pietas can absolve man from this sin.”

“Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will the price of food.”

“She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.”

“Although most Americans may be largely ignorant of what was, and still is, being done in their names, all are likely to pay a steep price-individua lly and collectively-fo r their nation's continued efforts to dominate the global scene.”

Source : "Who armed Iraq?" by Paul Rockwell, www.sfgate.com. March 2, 2003.

“For decades, people have known the chemical-propulsion approach to space travel is really not going to get us that far. Chemical propulsion is essentially like the horse-and-cart approach to the exploration of the American West, instead of the steamboat or the railroad.”

“I feel that gay people not being able to get married for generations, forever, meant that we came up with alternative ways of recognizing relationships. And I worry that if everybody has access to the same institutions that we lose the creativity of subcultures having to make it on their own. And I like gay culture.”