Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.