You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

All education is self-discovery.

A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the fellow and knew a little about him and his family, you might just jump in front of his killer and try to stop it. Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know is bad, or amoral, at least. You can’t act if you don’t know.

I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.

The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.