An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

I write to discover what I think.

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.

He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree.

Switch on your stamina

All these men who loved Emma, I think. For all her problems, men were fixated on her. Will anyone ever feel like that about me?

When you fall into a black hole you will be literally spaghettified.

We live in the world our questions create.

I think editors are excellent marketers. They know their audience and produce copy to appeal to them - they just don't call it marketing.

I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!

Consciousness will not always solve the problem, but it may make the suffering meaningful.

There's a powerful magic about being a writer that I still marvel at.

Red is our color. (on Liverpool)