The cleaning is something I use as a reward if I get some work done. I go into a very happy state of mind when I'm vacuuming.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinite into infinity, infinitesimal into location, 0D into point, 1D into line, curved into geodesic.

A book lives as long as it is unfathomed.

The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

You're going to women? Don't forget your whip!

You cannot go with God and stay where you are.

It is through good education that all the good in the world arises.

When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence

Faith holds on to truth and reason from what it knows to be fact.

People love that monkey torture.