I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.

When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.

Problems are not roadblocks, but exercise tools.

Never believe a man’s claim that he has to harm his partner in order to protect her

Most of the time, the things that really change the world exist for something fundamentally selfish and then the world-changing ends up being a side-effect of that.

What makes [cyber security] difficult is because it's not just a government problem. It is a private sector and government problem. And there's gotta be a lot more cooperation.

Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.

Lucian Freud's career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or ideas that happened to pick them in order to be made known to the world.

It is our fall from a simplicity and fullness of life directly experienced, from the sensuous moment of knowing, which leaves a gap that the symbolic can never bridge.

For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing.

Science is public, not private, knowledge.