Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last.

How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

Knowing without seeing is at the heart of chemistry.

Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.

It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.

Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.

From a chemist's point of view, the surface or interior of a star…is boring—there are no molecules there.

It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.

I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe.

I can do nothing without His help. Oh, Lord, what ignorance thinking everything was wealth.

We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.

Vampires have become tragic or romantic figures. Vampire are largely seduction tales. They're no longer the scary creature in the dark.

And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.

A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.

Music was what bothered me, what interested me.

He was ordinary in a world that loved the extraordinary.

I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.

Georgetown. Alonzo was the guy I always heard about. I've always wanted to measure myself against the best.

The only thing Oriental about me is my face.