A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.

If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.

The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off.

Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.

Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one bears the other. In fact, this hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world.

Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.

Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.