I am the Captain of my own life.

Just as books are read one word at a time, roads are taken one step at a time.

When one is altering the face of the universe one cannot remember small helpful acts.

don't take many words to break a fragile heart!

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an almost cellular, subliminal level - of the rules about what you can and can't do.

Happiness is sitting down to watch some slides of your neighbor's vacation and finding out that he spent two weeks in a nudist colony.

In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the equilibrium.

There is one and the same soul in many bodies.

O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!

I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.