I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world.

And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought.

I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.

On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

You love someone, you've got to let something go.

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

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Nothing is illegal so long as you correct it before the SEC catches it.

I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

We still have to put some cherry syrup on it, and then we can eat it

I'm going to let my friends in the other parties fight over the turf at the cutting edge of the status quo.

Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.

The more you’re willing to risk, the more God can use you. And if you’re willing to risk everything, then there is nothing God can’t do in you and through you.

I still feel 29. Maybe I should act my age more, but I just can't.

Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.