A man is a form of life that dreams in order to act and acts in order to dream.

Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible.

The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.

How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve.

There are three cardinal rules - don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters.

Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.

All the rest is silence On the other side of the wall, And the silence ripeness, And the ripeness all.