The essential building block is...the true love that is impossible to define for those who have never experienced it and unnecessary to define for those who have.

The greatest inventors are unknown to us. Someone invented the wheel - but who?

When I sit down at the typewriter, I write. Someone once asked me if I had a fixed routine before I start, like setting up exercises, sharpening pencils, or having a drink of orange juice. I said, "No, the only thing I do before I start writing is to make sure that I'm close enough to the typewriter to reach the keys."

If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys.

Many adults, whether consciously or unconsciously, find it beneath their adult dignity to do anything as childish as read a book, think a thought, or get an idea. Adults are rarely embarrased at having forgotten what little algebra or geography they once learned

When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion - the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right.