Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see. – John Gardner
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government. – John Gardner
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. – John Gardner
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. – John Gardner
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it…. We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself. – Paracelsus, quoted in The Dream Game