To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.

If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.

The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

The world as we see it is only the world as we see it. Others may see it differently.

Never memorize something that you can look up.