When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.
A place for everything, and everything in its place.
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
Ah just act the way ah feel.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.
Young heads take example of the ancient.
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
Get off your butt and join the Marines!
There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.