There are very few things that can be proved rigorously in condensed matter physics.

The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and to see the subject from a new perspective.

Man's capacity to innovate should not exceed his ability to live in peace.

You are backed by great power. Press onwards, you will succeed.

People don't hurt what they love.

The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.

The dream is not a map. A poem is not the territory. The dreamer reclines in a barbershop carpeted with Afro turf. In the dark some soul yells. It hurts to walk barefoot on cowrie shells.

His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.

We musicians play in Time and with Time, but sometimes it is Time that plays with us. One day, unpredictably, the evolution of culture makes real an oeuvre which has lain in obscurity.

Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world

Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth.

Bind up their wounds - but look the other way.