Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality.

We have to give up the idea of realism to a far greater extent than most physicists believe today.

I think there is a need for something completely new. Something that is too different, too unexpected, to be accepted as yet.

Real breakthroughs are not found because you want to develop some new technology, but because you are curious and want to find out how the world is.

What we perceive about ourselves is greatly a reflection of how we will end up living our lives.

You vote for Hillary Clinton, you're crazy.

The cops drive by to do some more good deeds A young black male spits a sunflower seed in the air.

For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.

We are the state, and we shall continue to be the state until we have created the institutions that form a real community and society of men.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.

That was the way with grief: it left you alone for months together until you thought that you were cured, and then without warning it blotted out the sunlight.

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.

Procrastinating, fighting and avoiding will only make it more difficult. The way out is to get it done.

If somebody else is achieving more than I am, that means I can do it, too. Everybody has the ability to raise themselves up, and my life has been marked by that.