English life, while very pleasant, is rather bland. I expected kindness and gentility and I found it, but there is such a thing as too much couth.

Emptiness is everywhere and it can be calculated, which gives us a great opportunity. I know how to control the universe. So tell me, why should I run for a million?

It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated.

Everybody understood that if the proof is correct then no other recognition is needed.

I know how to control the Universe. Why would I run to get a million, tell me?

If they need my C.V., they don’t know my work.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

I don’t want to be on display like an animal in a zoo.

The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere.

The main obligation is to amuse yourself.

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

Take care to keep open house : Because in this way some have had angels as their guests, without being conscious of it ". Hebrews 13:2.

Stand up for what's right for you when the time's right. Wake up to grab it as soon as possible. Shake up when you wake up

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

There is neither father, nor mother, nor son, nor any other person whatsoever who can embrace the object beloved with so great a love as that wherewith God embraceth the soul.

Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

...beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation.

Without producing, no man can love, nor can he understand or remember, nor have the power of feeling and being.

Parenthood is nothing but doubts.

My fighting gospel is T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom. I am never without it.

It is not always possible to have everything go as one likes. In working with allies, it sometimes happens that they develop opinions of their own