[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Don't you have a house to blow down?

Margaret Kochamma's tiny, ordered life relinquished itself to this truly baroque bedlam with the quiet gasp of a warm body entering a chilly sea.

I'm really the candidate who has really lived his whole life in suburbia.

Great,” Simon said. “Maybe I’ll even make it back before my mother notices I’m gone. What’s the time difference between here and Manhattan?” “You have a mother?” Aline looked amazed.

Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind, from a vain persuasion that those who have no dependence except on their favor will have no attachment except to the person of their benefactor.

I love being nurturing and caring because I love to see other people happy.

What matters to you defines your mattering.

The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.