The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.

On the one hand, I have wanted to supply documentation on myself by including material relevant to my emotions and ideas in my youth; and, on the other, not to let myself down by publishing inferior material. My poetry comes under the latter head. My only advice to the reader is to skip any verse that he sees coming.

I really can't stand any more to pay for a burst of animation when someone comes in for drinks with a depressed and low-keyed next day, in which I have to go around on my hands and knees.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.