We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find..

The more you invest in your happiness, the more happiness will invest in you..

I have a family to feed..

Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more..

To do or not to do... that is the question..

I had a Vincent van Gogh, a small Provençal landscape. We sold it. If you're going to have a van Gogh it should be a really good van Gogh..

Ultimately a historian has to put together a cohesive work. That doesn't mean that your curiosity is ever totally satisfied..

Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book..

Whoever excommunicates me, excommunicates God..

At no period of [Michael Faraday's] unmatched career was he interested in utility. He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at f….

Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of….

But as you say in English, c'est la vie!.

The public be damned..

For me, intrigue is a pretty powerful emotion. If you want to know more about a character, if you want to understand how they work, then you have eno….

Strength is for service, not status.

Get it right in your head - and you'll get it right in your life..

I'd much rather resign than be pushed..

I keep everything that's private private..

I like to be counted on..

To do more, is not necessarily to do better..

I love Eminem, I love Moby. Why can't we just be friends?.