Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.

With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.

To have realized your dream makes you feel lost.

I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life to build myself as I am.

"Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare."