It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.