I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius -- I know it too well to blush behind it.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.

I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.

Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.

[T]he essence of belief is doubt, the essence of reality is questioning. The essence of Time is Flow, not Fix. The essence of faith is the knowledge that all flows and that everything must change. The growing man is Man Alive, and his "philosophy" must grow, must flow, with him. . . . the man too fixed today, unfixed tomorrow - and his body of beliefs is nothing but a series of fixations.

Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.