The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Boards don't hit back.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

The future ain't what it used to be.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

Courage is grace under pressure.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.