The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?

I think really good books can be read by anybody.

if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance

But just because you can never reach it, doesn’t mean that it’s not worth looking for.