When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that's how you learn, from people who don't have to be polite to you.

I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.

It was the dawn of the third age of mankind.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous.

If sacred places are spared the ravages of war... then make all places sacred. And if the holy people are to be kept harmless from war... then make all people holy.

All love is unrequited. All of it.

I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

Wouldn't it be much worse if life really were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them?

Is there any pleasure on earth as great as the circle of Christian friends by a good fire?

But out of limitations comes creativity.

When you have done the rashest thing in the world it is very pleasant to be told that no man of spirit could have acted otherwise.

The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.

And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that.

I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.