We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our venturing upon.

Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.

In curved Einsteinian space we are at all times, technically, looking at the back of our own head.

A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.

I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.

nothing now exists that is so valuable as whatever theoretically might replace it.

Introspect. Dive deep into your own Life and think . . .. Think . . . “How have I lived?” “How can I make my Life better?

I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance.

Because a women's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it.

The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.

I don’t believe in universalism, but I do believe in Jesus Christ, the reconciler of all

I would definitely line up for 'The Lord of the Rings.' I'm a huge 'Lord of the Rings' geek.

All around us, people were cool. By association, so were we.

A PHD is not the end of education. Education exists even among the bees who feed their queen only with the purest.

The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us.

I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.