Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive

The ultimate test's always your own serenity. If you don't have this when you start and maintain it while you're working you're likely to build your personal problems right into the machine itself.

When you've got a Chautauqua in your head, it's extremely hard not to inflict it on innocent people.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

We always condemn most in others, he thought, that which we most fear in ourselves.

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.

It's so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.