I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

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

Fashion changes, but style endures.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.