I nearly always write — just as I nearly always breathe.

Trips to fairly unknown regions should be made twice; once to make mistakes and once to correct them.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

We have not known a single great scientist who could not discourse freely and interestingly with a child. Can it be that haters of clarity have nothing to say, have observed nothing, have no clear picture of even their own fields?

I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime in revenge for the rejection, and with the crime guilt- and there is the story of mankind.

Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.