Terrible is the temptation to be good.

The righteous one has no sense of humor.

Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the former with pleasure. In the coming age, art will fashion our entertainment out of new means of productivity in ways that will simultaneously enhance our profit and maximize our pleasure.

Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. ... In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.

Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.