Unlikely things are often true . . .

Books aren't lumps of paper, but minds on shelves.

Remember, a book is always a gift.

I drink to not giving a damn . . .

The books housed in one's first adult bookshelf are the geological bed of who we wish to become

Ageing is a process of exchanging hope for insight

Art opens the fishiest eye . . .

Don't be a martyr to your imagination.

He wanted to limit me to his own investigation of who I was . . .

I hate being ignored.

I shall be thirty-one next birthday. My youth is gone like a dream; and very little use have I ever made of it. What have I done these last thirty years? Precious little.

Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.

When you're in that zone there's nothing really the defense can do ... It doesn't matter who's sticking you because everything looks good.

I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated. Any nation that is progressive is led by people who have had the privilege of studying.

Thou shalt likewise know that according to Law, the nature of this universe is in all things a like.

Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.

I think the philosophy will continue to be what it always was; which was, let's keep throwing a bunch of things at the wall, and see what sticks.