The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.

The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is suffering mainly from a bad script writer. An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results. An experiment is a failure only when it also fails adequately to test the hypothesis in question, when the data it produces don't prove anything one way or another.

For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

The pencil is mightier than the pen.

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.