At the time I could no more believe my eyes than now I can trust my memory.

It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.

We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.

By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment

I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a kind of fraudulent showmanship, that one's own wretched heart is still aglow.

We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.

We all have appointments with the past.

I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.

Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!

The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.

... the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.

You just don’t get it. The point I’m trying to make—the point you’re deliberately ignoring—is that tomorrow it might all go away. You have to do what you want and take what you want now.

I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.

A book is a small library you can fit into your pocket.

When you're in business, if you have some sort of gimmick it's a huge advantage.

You'll never come second by putting God first.

I think referendums are fantastic as long as the question is phrased in a way which is not meant to deliberately confuse or confound people.

I've never been much given to little social cliques.

Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence.

It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.

I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force.