…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.

Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.

I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.

A battle goes on in the stock market and the tape is your telescope. You can depend upon it seven out of ten cases.

Those involved with practical reactors, humbled by their experiences, speak less and worry more.

Be yourself. If you try to be someone else, it won't work. Whatever you do, you are not going to make everyone happy.

A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.

Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama.

A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie.

It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing.

Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight, Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.