People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is when you have choices.

If you're going to spend a long time locked in somebody's basement, take a professor with you.

Science could not fill the hole in my soul.

Hope is the flower of life.

There are things you forget naturally-computer passwords, your father's continuing relationship with life-and then there are things you can't forget that you wish you could.

The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.

The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has.

IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow.

Being an assistant in a computer lab was the worst job I ever had. It was boring. That was when I was in college.

I might as well doubt of my own being, as of the being of those things I actually see and feel.

To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library.