Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.

small talk comes from small bones

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

Either move or be moved.

Usura slayeth the child in the womb It stayeth the young man's courting It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bride and her bridegroom