To write only according to the rules laid down by masterpieces signifies that one is not a master but a pupil.

Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.

A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and unalone.

Everything does not happen for a reason. Believing this does not ease the pain for anyone. It hides it.

I think people need hope when times are tough. I think they also need escape and adventure and fantasy. Books are like cheap mini vacations.

People used to play with toys.Now the toys play with them.

American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.

Time in the heart and sequence in the brain-- Such as destroyed Rimbaud and fooled Verlaine. And let us then take godhead by the neck-- And strangle it, and with it, rhetoric.

I believe in the unlimited power of women in the context of science and engineering.

[It] is no longer a matter of taste or opinion...it is plain experimental evidence.

The most powerful medicine is at the end of your fork, not at the bottom of your pill bottle. Food is more powerful than anything in your medicine cabinet!

It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is

I was in the first submarine. Instead of a periscope, they had a kaleidoscope. "We're surrounded."