It's getting late. I must return to my ship or my men will think I've drowned and be celebrating.

It is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.

Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.

The subtlest lie of all is the full truth.

It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.

The past is a script we are constantly rewriting.