Time's arrow is the loss of fidelity in compression. A sketch, not a photograph. A memory is a re-creation, precious because it is both more and less than the original.

There are many ways to say I love you in this cold, dark, silent universe, as many as the twinkling stars.

Every act of communication is a miracle of translation.

Most principles are limp until they are tested.

Intelligence services exist to do things that are illegal abroad. They exist to tell lies.

I want to write for history, not for the moment.

There's an element of trust that you don't find with people nowadays.

I daydream just like everybody else. I just do it with my body facing the field, so everybody thinks I'm paying attention.

I decided I wasn't going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever.

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.

Shine without guilt. Modesty was invented by the mediocres who think you should be the same as them.

Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.