It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.

In a large university, there are as many deans and executive heads as there are schools and departments. Their relations to one another are intricate and periodic; in fact, "galaxy" is too loose a term: it is a planetarium of deans with the President of the University as a central sun. One can see eclipses, inner systems, and oppositions.

Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world.

The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.

Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces.

The reason why research is like sculpting from memory is that in neither is there a concrete visible subject to copy directly. The subject - as sculptors themselves are fond of saying - is hidden in the block of material.

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.