Machines certainly can solve problems, store information, correlate, and play games - but not with pleasure.

I sometimes think there is a dimension beyond the four of experience and Einstein: insight, that fifth dimension which promises to liberate us from bondage to the long, imperfect past

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.

Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of anguish and wonder and pain? … The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.

People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, please paint me the Gettysburg Address.

The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.