It is interesting to note that everyone has a different take on the world, a different opinion, and given the same inputs have completely different outputs.

To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a think.

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other hand, are often better if they're about people the writer doesn't like very much.

More than that, I believe that the grass is green because green is restful to the human eye, that the sky is blue to give us an idea of the infinite. And that blood is red so that murder will be more easily detected and criminals will be brought to justice. Yes, and I believe that I shall live forever, but I shall live without reason.

Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.