Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage.

I have no idea what I am doing but incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm.

Spencer was searching for a woman interested in gold, inorganic chemistry, outdoor sex and the music of Bach. In short, he was looking for himself, only female.

I'm short enough and ugly enough to succeed on my own.

All things are possible, except skiing through a revolving door.

There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about like those things one sees when looking at a drop of water under a microscope.

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.