Men substitute words for reality and then argue about the words.

The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.

I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.

The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your i

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

I suspect states are going to realize there's money to be made, and they'll start to change laws so people can distil to sell. It happened with wine, it happened with beer.

We wouldn't have put it out with the name Queen on it if we didn't think it was musically up to scratch.

You try to do as little as you can, but you need to do as much as is necessary to get a result. When you get a result, you do less.

In our world we sleep and eat the image and pray to it and wear it too.

There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard.

Within National Parks is room--glorious room--room in which to find ourselves, in which to think and hope, to dream and plan, to rest and resolve.

My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.

The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.