Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth.

Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going.

Sometimes you must go against the wheel's turn.

We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?

The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that she and she alone is in charge of that pencil, and responsible, she and she alone, for what it writes on that paper.

Well, we think that time "passes," flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book, you see. The book is all there, all at once, between its covers. But if you want to read the story and understand it, you must begin with the first page, and go forward, always in order. So the universe would be a very great book, and we would be very small readers.

But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.