There's no drug that'll make a stupid man smart.

An honest book is almost as good as a friend.

It was possible at last to hear the silence to appreciate that there was a silence, deep and potent, out there beyond the pretension of the light.

Stupid people do stupid things, but people who are smart enough can do something really stupid.

What we cannot remember, we must rediscover.

One doesn't have to understand in order to look. One has to look, in order to understand.

Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim.