Science is a collection of successful recipes.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

The ocean is never afraid of wind rising against it

Life’s not a one-shot special. It’s a friggin’ on-going series. Live it!

One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions.

[History is] petrified imagination.

Alekhine developed as a player much more slowly than most. In his twenties, he was an atrocious chessplayer, and didn't mature until he was well into his thirties.

The single most important lesson I learned is that black people are the cause of black people's demise.

Money doesn't make you happy, but it gives a zone of comfort around you.

Champagne makes you feel like it's Sunday and better days are just around the corner.

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

The government increasingly resembles somebody who is trying to give the kiss of life to a corpse.