I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.

That's what we all do : endlessly take the long way around.

An avalanche doesn't look back at the damage it causes.

I am only speaking of my own behalf.

Every heart has its own melody," he said. "You know mine. - James Carstairs

Remember, 'Even this will pass away.'

Visual cortex is fundamentally a machine whose job is to generate a model of the world.

It's a complicated story [hoe I got into music ]. I actually wrote a book about it, titled For Sue.

I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.

The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.