He was that driven, that smart. But he could not sit still within himself.

It requires far more strength to experience emotion than to suppress it.

Sitting on my bed with all these things I used to love but not loving them anymore, I just wanted to set them on fire. That's when I knew I was never going to be all right again.

I wanted to peel myself off of me.

Every brain is different. And so must be every course of therapy.

A scientist does not have hope, sir. Hope is what a man has in the absence of answers, and once he does empirical experimentation, he replaces hope with knowledge and disappointment.

You're not getting the b-level tunes. Our most recent producer, Danger Mouse, was quite sure about that. So you're getting the best of the best, the cream of the cream of what we have to offer.

When you win, there's glory enough for everybody. When you lose, there's glory for none.

It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do.

Those cultural wars, Sexual Revolution issues are fading from the scene, and the coming generation has basically settled them.

Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered, and sometimes like dancing and wordless music.

The lime trees were in bloom. But in the early morning only a faint fragrance drifted through the garden, an airy message, an aromatic echo of the dreams during the short summer night.

Passing competitors always gives you a lift. It probably has a physical effect, too, because you get a surge of adrenaline.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

Similarly, computer literacy courses tend to produce computer people who know a lot about computers or a piece of software but they don't help people become fluent with the machine.