The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
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.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.