School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural nightmare fear of failure, envy of success, and absurdity.

Up to a certain point anxiety is good, for it promotes action. Beyond that point we freeze any fixed attitudes or rush about without thinking deeply from one decision to another.

A competitive culture endures by tearing people down.

Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it

My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today

Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread

I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I goTo heal my heart and drown my woeRain may fall, and wind may blowAnd many miles be still to goBut under a tall tree will I lieAnd let the clouds go sailing by

When your own approval means more than the approval of others, that is self-love.

I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

The body of poetry is nothing but energy, waves, rhythm.

Camera and eye are together a time machine with which the mind and human being can do the same kind of violence to time and space as dreams.

Sea level rise and destruction of water resources as glaciers melt alone may have horrendous human consequences.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, photographers are worth a million.

I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.