You cannot just waste time. Otherwise you'll die to regret it.

memories are like corks left out of bottles. They swell. They no longer fit.

One of the best things about aging is being able to watch imagination overtake memory.

I have everything I need. A square of sky, a piece of stone, a page, a pen, and memory raining down on me in sleeves.

The minute he spoke Spanish, I said, "I'm home."

I won’t tell you what to believe, Eragon. It is far better to be taught to think critically and then be allowed to make your own decisions than to have someone else’s notions thrust upon you.

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.

When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure.

I get hired to hack into computers now and sometimes it's actually easier than it was years ago.

The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did.

A woman who writes feels too much.

Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions.

The job of a theoretical physicist is to make mistakes as fast as possible .

If being stupid is the only way for an intelligent man to be happy, then let us hope that unhappiness be his choice!

If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.