When we are not sure we are alive.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion.

knowledge is conventionally viewed as belief plus a bunch of credentials

It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.

Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one's individuality.

Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.

All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film.

Lets take flight simulation as an example. If youre trying to train a pilot, you can simulate almost the whole course. You dont have to get in an airplane until late in the process.

Only psychos and shamans create their own reality

The old people must start talking and the young people must start listening.