Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half- cultures do not make a culture

One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.

Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.

No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is conscious of it or not.

A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar.

In my youth I regarded the universe as an open book, printed in the language of equations, whereas now it appears to me as a text written in invisible ink, of which in our rare moments of grace we are able to decipher a small segment.

In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.