I have to understand the world, you see.

One time I was in the men's room of the bar and there was a guy at the urinal. He was kind of drunk, and said to me in a mean-sounding voice, 'I don't like you…

I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a flower and say, 'Look how beautiful it is,' and I'll a…

I returned to civilization shortly after that and went to Cornell to teach, and my first impression was a very strange one. I can't understand it any more, but…

If the expedition had failed, which it might well have done with all hope centered in just one plane, I should still be trying to pay back my obligations.

If we understood the world, we would realize that there is a logic of harmony underlying its manifold apparent dissonances.

You are the world.