"Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done"
"The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it."
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
"We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams."
"If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it."
"No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft."