201 Quotes by Daniel Quinn

You've been in love with someone for a decade - someone who barely knows you're alive. You've done everything, tried everything to make this person see that you're a valuable, estimable person, and that your love is worth something. Then one day you open the paper and glance at the Personals column, and there you see that your loved one has placed an ad... seeking someone worthwhile to love and be loved by.

What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of the prison itself.

TEACHER seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person.

Don't wait. Where do you expect to get by waiting? Doing is what teaches you. Doing is what leads to inspiration. Doing is what generates ideas. Nothing else, and nothing less.

There is no one right way to live.

Increasing food production to feed an increased population results in yet another increase in population.

The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies.

You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to live.

From infancy onward, children are the most fantastic learners in the world.