If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to the traveler's eye, determine the direction of the journey.

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

...the temptation, which consisted of a single word written on the cemetary of the defeated: Sleep.

There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.

The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use.

True creativity often starts where language ends.

Faith is a wondrous thing; it is not only capable of moving mountains, but also of making you believe that a herring is a race horse.