a sensation is always the same as a piece of news, and a piece of news never lives long.

A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.

A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur.

How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.

The most subversive people are those who ask questions.

An answer is always on the stretch of road that is behind you. Only a question can point the way forward.

The question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a persons needs.

Wasn’t it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure!

Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy.

We are thrown together with a sprinkling of stardust.

Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life.

I enjoy writing fiction more than writing anything else. Wouldn't anyone?

Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.

Nearly unable to bear the thought of how much he needed her quiet strength, he closed his eyes and leaned his forehead against the cold glass.

( ...philosophy is more often the systematization of the prejudices of philosophers than the systematization of nature.) Distrust all generalizations: stick to the concrete.

Without friends the world is but a wilderness.

The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart.

I don't need to improve the look of my own if I don't even know what it looks like.

Ten years ago, the level was nowhere near what it is today. (on soccer in the United States)

I'm not tough. I'm tenacious.

Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices