To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a think.

Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.

It is interesting to note that everyone has a different take on the world, a different opinion, and given the same inputs have completely different outputs.

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

The body, then, has a mind of its own. It must follow, then, that the Mind has a body of its own, even if it’s like nothing that we can see around us, or have ever seen.

On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.

Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.

An unjust punishment is never forgotten.

A word of advice. If, as a young man, student, you are tormented by a desire for women, it is best to get out into the fresh air as much as possible.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.

Whatever dream God gave to you is for the comfort of those God keeps around you!

Writing a novel is like having a dream.

Before you contradict an old man my fair friend you should endeavour to understand him.

To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.

I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.

The more we study nature the grander does she appear. Science, by penetrating her secrets, often shows us the hidden and imposing forces exist where we only see inertia.

We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we are it.

I am told that very early on in this transition process, to expect that [Donald] Trump will announce his nominee for the Supreme Court.

A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.