Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Sunlight is painting.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

The day of individual happiness has passed

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

A good liar must have a good memory.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.