to live means to lack something at every moment

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life and there was no death in chemistry. She was puzzled as to why learned people didn't adopt chemistry as a religion.

The first thing you should know is that soulmates are real. They are not just some romantic idea. We are made for one person and one person alone.

A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a bookstore - those things are going to rapidly diminish as we move to an electronic model.

Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.

Most people are really cool and I really don't mind talking to them and answering their questions.

Every doorway, every intersection has a story.

Saying that you love is easy, but living up to those simple words is the most difficult thing you'll ever do.

I've always been called Lucky Louie. It's no mystery why.

This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.