Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.
It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.
I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.
Truth disappears with the telling of it.
An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.