It is only when you suffer that you truly understand.

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.

I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!

Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

But in the cause of science men are expected to suffer.

In the meantime, there is not an hour to lose. I am about to visit the public library.

Don’t let the agony, regret, or fog of yesterday blind you to the fact that each new day carries with it a plethora of opportunities to move your life into the right direction.

They came to study the dreadful vulgarity of this imaginary Mass Man they pretend to hate. But they're fascinated with the snake-pit.

As long as I take the responsibility of the choice, I have to make the choice that is as right as possible.

I'm not a star, and I don't want to be a star. Stars fall. I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.

The entrée wasn't tender enough to be a paving stone and the gravy couldn't have been primordial soup because morphogenesis was already taking place.

You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year.

If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.

I'm always open to new stuff. I don't sit and try to figure out what to do, I just wait for an idea to come.

I had become an atheist at the age of thirteen, when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan.

I read once that elegance is a privilege of age. I thought, that's so true. You get more comfortable with yourself as you get older.