We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.

Notoriety and a fat bank balance must come after everything else is finished and done.

I believe in having fun first, and along the way, if you teach people, if you influence people, well and good.

Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.

Not to write, for many of us, is to die.

It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.