I took the standpoint that the profession of technologist, a man who masters matter, is a masculine profession, if not the only masculine profession there is.

The older you get the simpler you want to make it.

There is no art without Eros.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.

A real life, a life that leaves a deposit in the shape of something alive.... It's difficult to say what makes a life a real life.... You could also say it depends on a person being identical with himself.

A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.