Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

The official world, the corridors of power.

'When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you find that more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.'

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.

No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap.