Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.