Truth, not a pet, is man's best friend.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

Genius sees the answer before the question.

There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.

The people of this world must unite or they will perish.

When we deny the EVIL within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only of our own destiny but of any possibility of dealing with the EVIL of others.

I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.

To dream of a magical world is one thing. To be told it exists is quite another.

Depression is evil. Before you know it, it takes over and there's no escaping it.

For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.

Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?

The great sins and fires break out of me like the terrible leaves from the bough in the violent spring. I am a walking fire, I am all leaves.

I was just like, "I want to make a decent 2-D movie." I was so worried that, instead of being a decent 2-D movie, it would have been a bad 3-D one.

Winners take the action that others won't.

In fact, lots of good poetry doesn't work , so I don't mind a bit of mystification or difficulty.