They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

if you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand.

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

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: "You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do."

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.