At Arcueil ... I dined in distinguished company... There was a lot of very interesting discussion. It is these gatherings which are the joy of life.

If one were not animated with the desire to discover laws, they would escape the most enlightened attention.

We are perhaps not far removed from the time when we shall be able to submit the bulk of chemical phenomena to calculation.

In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

In their quest to hit cloud Nine, our young men and women intheir prime are gradually finding themselves on ground Zero, emotionally battered, academically bankrupt and medicallyparalyzed.

Whole swaths of the book [Lincoln in the Bardo] are made up of verbatim quotes from various historical sources, which I cut up and rearranged to form part of the narrative.

I was a Hollywood musical fan as a kid, and I know how rare it is for someone who originates the Broadway role to get to then do it on screen.

When I was young I was constantly reading walls; I took in everything written on walls, from love messages to political messages. It was my hobby and became my art.

Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations to love at first sight; it is ye who open the door and let the stranger in.

It did suffer and it became very weak, while the reporters from Iraqi radio and television stations were more active and had more accurate information.

Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the Sun, or else hang them up in the Chimney corner upon a string; as for such as are hard you may dry them any where.

It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it.

Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.