The "passion for incredulity" can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe.

The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men who love words or by men who love living.

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of.

The visionary disciplines himself to see the world always as if he had only just seen it for the first time.

Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say.

When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds.