"It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man."

"Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap."

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

"You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars."

"Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top."

"Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own."

"Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers."

"We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons."

"Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in."

"Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice."