He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?

...how could I, fool that I am, go on sitting in my office, or here at home, instead of leaping onto a train with my eyes shut and opening them only when I am with you?

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.

I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones. So I begin, everywhere at once, as if I had a century ahead of me.