Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our venturing upon.

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.

I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.

In curved Einsteinian space we are at all times, technically, looking at the back of our own head.

A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.

I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.

nothing now exists that is so valuable as whatever theoretically might replace it.

Wilderness gave us knowledge. Wilderness made us human. We came from here. Perhaps that is why so many of us feel a strong bond to this land called Serengeti it is the land of our youth.

As the new Adam, it might be said, his final act was to cast the Apple of Knowledge into the deep blue sea.

The art of entrepreneurship and the science of Customer Development is not just getting out of the building and listening to prospective customers. It's understanding who to listen to and why.

Guys you have way too much invested in sport. Guys you are not the tenth man. You're a machine for turning beer into piss that's what you are!

Complexity serves nothing but our ego. Be able to say what you do in a way that people can understand.

Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.

And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.

I have haters. I have so many haters.

Actually I'm a big fan of Spielberg and the way he shoots action scenes.

I don't regard Jews as a class. I regard them as a privileged misfortune.