A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.