His gaze glossed over a stack of wooden crates and landed on a steamer trunk that was covered with stickers from all over the world.

Orlando said it was important for scientists to have minds kept open by literature, and souls touched by the creativity of art.

Understanding one's purpose is the key to success.

You sure about this writer thing son?

Of all the remedies it has pleased almighty God to give man to relieve his suffering, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.

I had my first real kiss at Magic Mountain on a park bench. Not the most romantic thing ever.

Don't try to steer the river.

I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.

My childhood definitely revolved around my relationship with my brother. I wanted to be different. I wanted to find my way of being as intriguing and interesting as he was.

You can't think of risks. I have nothing to lose. You either make something that you like, or you don't, and you throw it to the universe.

My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.

We have three post-PC devices: the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad, the revolutionary device that defined a whole new categoryit's outstripping the wildest of predictions.