Everyone has a telephone. Whether they can afford it or not. It's one of those things that people have, regardless of their income.

...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.

From now on I hope always to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.

With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century.

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.