The purpose of teachers should be to add to the sum of human knowers rather than the sum of human knowledge.

No writer or speaker who ignores the roots of Latin derivatives is secure from egregious error.

There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

A pen on paper is the ideal way for me. I am not really very comfortable with machines; I never learned to type very well.

What comes from the heart lands on the heart creatively.

One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.

In a way, it made him sad. He couldn't help but think that a hundred times zero was still nothing.

I don't think I've ever been particularly scared of death - but scared of dying, the process. It doesn't seem to be a good way of doing it.

All future wars, all future accidents will be live wars and live accidents.

I think underneath it all [in the Big Funk] was a little bit of a Europeanness in it.

What is terrible when you seek the truth, is that you find it. You find it, and then you are no longer free to follow the biases of your personal circle, or to accept fashionable clichés.