There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag...

We've got to believe in our beautiful impossible blueprints.

Little Tamar, forget the long ago. We are here and we are now, and that is all. We are making a new start.

Nicknames are potent ways of cutting people down to size.