To do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts.

There are worse sins for a scientist than to be wrong. One is to be trivial

Stop thinking. I've stopped some 15 years ago. Otherwise, if you will be thinking you won't want to live. Everyone who thinks is unhappy.

What is it like to be so free - so trapped, but so free? What kind of bird sings only when caught? What kind of slave outshines and rises above her master?

A comedy club is a place where you work out material, you're trying material.

Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.

It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to swear allegiance to the queen. I'm just not a royalist. I think it's idiotic, a hereditary principle.

Hee that bewailes himselfe hath the cure in his hands.

In Poland, nobody is arrested or persecuted for political reasons.

If voting could change anything, it would be illegal.

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.