The good man does not grieve that other people do not recognize his merits. His only anxiety is lest he should fail to recognize theirs.
I've never made plans for more than a day ahead.
I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel—everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.
I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.
A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius.
There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong.
I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis.
I'm sad in a way that the character [Doctor Strange ] leaves [neurosurgery] behind. It's an amazing discipline.
I don't play to prove people right or wrong. I just want to win.
You know that I don't believe that anyone has ever taught anything to anyone. I question that efficacy of teaching. The only thing that I know is that anyone who wants to learn will learn. And maybe a teacher is a facilitator, a person who puts things down and shows people how exciting and wonderful it is and asks them to eat.
There are lots of excellent analysts out there. John Holdren at the Harvard Kennedy School, who was just president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, has been talking about this stuff for years. There are lots of people out there who understand what’s going on. The problem is, they aren’t much picked up on Fox News.