We built your fort. We will not have it used against us.
Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.
A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Having to call your customer service department is like falling off a six story building.
We have educated ourselves into a world from which wonder, and he fear and dread and splendor and freedom of wonder have been banished. Of course wonder is costly. You couldn't incorporate it into a modern state, beacuse it is the antithesis of the anxiously worshiped security which is what a modern state is asked to give. Wonder is marvellous but it is also cruel, cruel, cruel. It is undemocratic, discriminatory and pitiless.
After they had explored all the suns in the universe, and all the planets of all the suns, they realized there was no other life in the universe, and that they were alone. And they were very happy, because then they knew it was up to them to become all the things they had imagined they would find.
We are very concerned all the time with figuring out new technologies and advances in science, but really [while] our future is dependent on science and progress, it's not less dependent on the way we treat each other.