Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
My home is not a place, it is people.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.